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 £12.00
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Over 18
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Saturday 11th October 2025
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Multiple start times (see ticket info)
With
52 acres and nearly 300,000 burials, Southwark’s Nunhead is the
second largest of London’s magnificent seven cemeteries. Founded in
1840, just before a Cholera epidemic plagued the borough, Nunhead
became a sombre sanctuary entwined with tales of maritime
connections due to the cemetery’s proximity to the Thames and her
dockyards. The grandest tomb belongs to John Allan, a successful
Whitby-born shipowner whose resting place stands as a grand
testament to his maritime endeavours. The cemetery also houses the
crypt of Bryan Donkin, a director of the Thames Tunnel Company,
industrialist and inventor of the tin can.
Join us on a guided tour led by the London historian and graveyard expert, Keith Turpin, as he illuminates Nunhead Cemetery's with fire and ash. Associations of sepulchral gloom and damp crypts with the emergence of the Magnificent Seven Victorian cemeteries in the mid nineteenth century were eventually superceded by the growth of the cremation movement. We explore the touching and often bizarre stories of trail blazers who believed that cremation offered a sanitary and pragmatic solution to London's ever growing population, and the limitations of providing traditional spaces.
Warming to our theme, we will see how the cemetery was literally under fire during the Second World War, and in the decades of decline and neglect that followed, when an act of arson proved to be a pivotal moment : from the ashes Nunhead began its Phoenix-like renewal and revival, a process that is very much ongoing as we start a major restoration of the East Lodge.
Offers
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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Ashes to Ashes - Morning
Morning Tour |
11:00 - 12:30 | £12.00 |
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Ashes to Ashes - afternoon
Afternoon ticket |
14:00 - 15:30 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, London, SE15 3LP
Organiser
A Curious Invitation
Each year, Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation host London Month of the Dead, a festival of over 60 different events to inform, provoke and entertain on teh subject of mortality and the city.
Events include walks, talks, workshops, theatrical performances, storytelling, live-scored films, concerts, and visits to secret parts of the city.
Subjects span the cultural landscape from the forensic to the esoteric with an unparalleled range of speakers, performers, guides and experts.
Each year, London Month of the Dead donates 20% of ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries.
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