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Victorian cemetery's storage building for coffins given Grade II listing

A unique "reception house for the dead" tucked away in the corner of a Victorian cemetery has been given protected status. The building in Hammersmith's Margravine Cemetery, West London, which was ...
The New York Times

A City of the Dead That Inspires the Living

Perched on a steep hillside peering down at central London, a Victorian graveyard, Highgate Cemetery, provides clues to long ago lives and is still in use today.Credit... Supported by Highgate ...
Los Angeles Times

A visit to London’s cemeteries

LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that’s weird, I find ...
Reuters

Karl Marx's London cemetery looks to solve its grave problem

LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - London's most famous cemetery, the final resting place of revolutionary socialist Karl Marx, is searching for a new lease of life by reclaiming long-abandoned graves so they ...
Smithsonian Magazine

You Can’t Walk Around London’s Cemeteries Without Seeing Someone Famous (and Dead)

Sheldon Goodman was standing beside the granite tomb of the Duke of Cambridge when he felt the stranger’s eyes upon him. It was a crisp, spring day and the winding paths of west London’s Kensal Green ...
Seattle Times

Famed London cemetery, nearly full, turns to recycling old graves

LONDON — In death, as in life, it is expensive to have famous people as your neighbors. There is hardly any space left at Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard in north London where Karl Marx, ...

Most endangered Victorian buildings revealed

The Victorian Society pubishes a list of the top 10 most endangered buildings in England and Wales.