Written by Lauren
Rating: 5
VERIFIED
As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Walks & Tours, Something A Little Different and Daytime
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Tickets from £20.00
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Over 18
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Fri, 4th Oct 2024 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
Once revered as a sanctuary for the departed and the living alike, West Norwood emerged from the depths of Victorian London in 1837. With an air of aristocratic reverence, it swiftly earned its place among the illustrious Magnificent Seven cemeteries, becoming a haven where souls sought solace beneath the watchful gaze of towering monuments.
The cemetery is the last resting place of, among others, Mrs Beeton, author of the seminal manual on household management, Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the eponymous news agency, Henry Tate, the art gallery patron, and Thomas Letts, who popularised the diary.
Join Caroline Swan for a torch-lit evening walk through the cemetery's most cherished and surprising monuments, which will lead you to the newly-restored St Stephen’s chapel, where you can chill by candle-light to eerie stories of the supernatural told by Giles Abbott.
Tickets £20 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at West Norwood Cemetery
Caroline Swan
Caroline Swan is a London-based historian and author of the Flickering Lamps blog. She writes about the histories behind often-familiar buildings, parks and - of course - graveyards: a single grave or an unusual street name can often reveal strange, moving, and sometimes even disturbing stories about the past. Caroline is also currently working towards a PhD in London History at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Tickets/Times
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Monuments by Moonlight
West Norwood Cemetery tour and Storytelling |
19:00 - 21:00 | £20.00 |
Location
Address
West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Rd, London, SE27 9JU
Nearest Station
West Norwood (Rail)
Getting there
Organiser
A Curious Invitation
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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