Entries from Londonist tagged with 'graveyard'
October 30, 2008
If you'll allow your ghoully Halloween bent to run into the weekend then you could partake of life beyond the burial ground at the magnificient Victorian Kensal Green Cemetery. Last night, its famed and beautifully restored Dissenters Chapel was host to the launch of the latest One Eye Grey and resounded to the ooky tunes of an eccentric organist, lit by candles and populated by mask wearing folklore fiends, quaffing far too much rum......
Continue Reading "Catacombs, Graves, Dissenters & Spooks"April 3, 2008
A Jewish graveyard in East London was vandalised yesterday with 30-40 tombs damaged. Headstones were smashed, railings trashed and a small fire was started up against a wall in Plashet Cemetery, East Ham. However, this latest incident is small fry compared to the major attack that left 386 gravestones damaged in the very same cemetery, back in 2003. The desecration of burial grounds is an affront to people of any, or indeed, no faith......
Continue Reading "Mindless Vandalism Or Anti-Semitism?"