Highgate Cemetery
Apologies for the lateness of this week's Something Interesting. We were in Edinburgh for the weekend, and I'm trying to catch up.
Lauren and I recently spent an afternoon in Highgate Cemetery, in North London. Like most cemeteries, it's a wonderfully photogenic place. For proof, click here
I hesitate to state the obvious amongst learned literary types, but maybe Gordon (unimportantly Ernest) Bell was just making an Oscar Wilde reference.
I agree though, that he seems like he would have been an interesting person to meet.
For heaven's sake--I can't believe I missed the Oscar Wilde reference! Lucinda, you're absolutely right. I bet that's what it is.
Lovely collection of photos. And some well spotted gems as well. The double headstone renews some faith in human nature.
I think it's a picture of, not by Tom Wakefield (see http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/tomwakefield.html) He wrote some interesting sounding books ("He's Much Better He Can Smile Now", "Trixie Trash - star ascending")which one day I will get round to reading. The combination of being gay and a teacher of handicapped children possibly accounts for his being described as a mother(?).
Incidentally, it's a bit unsettling to see ivy-covered graves of people who weren't even feeling a bit under the weather last time I visited Highgate...