Life after death: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
See the transformation from cemetery to public park. This remarkable resource in east London, run by the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, is a model for the rest of the UK.
Volunteers from South West London Environment Network visited Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park for a fact-finding tour with park manager Ken Greenway.
Silent Dinosaurs at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in London
refuses to speak for itself
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park 2013
A beautiful cemetery in east London, UK. Twenty six acres of beautiful and atmospheric woodland in the heart of the borough
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a designated Local Nature Reserve and, as a result of careful management and conservation efforts, a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Listen to the peace - and birds - in the middle of busy, noisy, dirty, East End
Tower Hamlets Cemetery 1841 ''Magnificent Seven'' (6) Walking Tour
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a closed, historic cemetery located in the East End of London. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. It is now a nature reserve.
Don't waste Your time to go to this place.
My assessment of that cemetery is very low.
Brompton cemetery scores 10 points
Kensal cemetery scores 10 points
Highgate cemetery scores 9 points
West Norwood scores 8 points
Abney Park scores 3 points
Tower Hamlets scores 1 points
Fashion Shoot - Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London, UK
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#195 Graeme tells us of bees and family in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Graeme is from New Zealand and lives in Tower Hamlets. We meet him at night in the Cemetery Park, where he comes to walk and observes the bees.
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This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.
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TRANSCRIPT
At the moment we're in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. It's no longer used as a cemetery, it's the park bit on the end of it. I come here to exercise, basically. Because it's away from all of the road pollution. And it's basically an underused gym. I mean, there's lots of people coming here to walk their dogs. I tend to walk.
We're right next door to an area that's been fenced of for beehives. It's been here for about four or five years. The bees are heading back in, but there's one hive where somebody must have spilled some soft drink. Instead of just going back in at the bottom, which is their entrance and exit. They're actually clamping around on the outside where it's still stained from whatever it was that was spilled.So, it's obviously sweet and it's attracting their attention.
Here is an idea: if you've got a problem or something like that, you can share it with the bees and they will listen. And then they'll fly away and then it all disappears.
I'll take you back up to the main gate. That's interesting: I thought they locked the gate. 'Cause usually there's somebody in the Soanes Centre. I thought they locked the gate, but that definitely is the council locking the gate.
(filmmaker Daniel) Do you have any like family or, family over here or in New Zealand? (Graeme) Nope. None at all over here. I've still got some family back home and I've also got a brother who lives in Western Australia. Who I've seen when I went back. They don't come over here. The last one who came over, was only allowed in the country for a week. And that was a niece who I'd never met until I was supposed to meet her at the airport and had problems connecting with her, because she was being held as a result of what she'd written on her form. (filmmaker Ally) And do you know what she'd written? (Graeme) She was asked about criminal convictions and she said yes, she had one. And when they asked her what it was, she told them in no uncertain terms it was none of their business. So, they didn't like that answer. (Ally) Didn't go down very well. (Graeme) No
(Daniel) Done for today? (Graeme) Yeah, just about. I probably look like the bloody Exorcist. (laughs) Think it's Halloween.
London: War Memorial deliberately damaged, Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
For a few quid of copper disrespect is shown to those that served Britain in two World Wars.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery GE class
OFFICIAL TRAILER - Tower Hamlets Cemetery
Take a sneak peak of our first exploration video at Tower Hamlets Cemetery. We decided to find out whether there was life in the cemetery after dark. Stay tuned for the main video coming up very soon!
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City of London Cemetery
City of London Cemetery in the snow.
LONDON Walk Tour NUNHEAD CEMETERY Open Day 2019 - England
Filmed by WALKING TOUR - 18 May 2019
Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England. It is perhaps the least famous and celebrated of them. The cemetery is located in Nunhead in the London Borough of Southwark and was originally known as All Saints' Cemetery. Nunhead Cemetery was consecrated in 1840 and opened by the London Cemetery Company. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
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180827 Walking to the Cleary Family Grave in East London Crematorium & Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery 1832 London Dark Sanctuary ''Magnificent Seven'' (3) ,
Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in Kensal Green, in the west of London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Inspired by the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and founded in 1833 by the barrister George Frederick Carden, Kensal Green Cemetery comprises 72 acres of beautiful grounds including two conservation areas and an adjoining canal. Kensal Green Cemetery is home to 33 species of bird and other wildlife. This distinctive cemetery has a host of different of memorials ranging from large mausoleums housing the rich and famous to many distinctive smaller graves and even includes special areas dedicated to the very young.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park 2 - towards the tree canopy
Overgrown area of THCP is also the best for bird song. This is in an oasis of peace - last resting place of a great many that died in cholera outbreaks in the later 19th century. see for more
Tower Hamlets Cemetery
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Gardens of Death... digging up the dirt on The London Cemeteries
Seems to me as if these cemeteries are located in some places of importance. Chapels, lodges, gates and crypts may already have been in place as part of previous structures when the cemeteries were established in the mid 1800's.
Highgate in particular seems to have been a structure that was in the hillside... some Arcadian villa or temple... Nunhead, said to be named after a tavern that was there may have been an Abbey and Brompton is set out like a cathedral or temple. Also old masonry from cathedrals and churches appears to have been used as funerary 'art'. More to come....
The Magnificent Seven Cemeteries
Highgate Cemetery Epitaph for an age
West Norwood Cemetery
Music 'Relaxing Piano Music' by Kevin MacLeod
St Cements Hospital (Tower Hamlets)
A visit to ABNEY PARK CEMETERY, in London's Stoke Newington.
This week we went for a wander around Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, London, The old Graveyard is the resting place of William Booth (Founder of the Salvation Army and others, it is full of trees, dramatic graves and a few random nutcases too!
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DEPART by Circa | Part of #LIFT2016, 16 - 26 June Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Haunting sights and sounds will seduce you down a path punctuated by unexpected encounters as you weave through the space between life and death in this East End cemetery…
Led by Yaron Lifschitz with his internationally acclaimed company, Circa and with a creative team including the electronic musician Lapalux, this ethereal collaboration brings circus artists, choral singers, designers and musicians together for a summer night full of surprises.
Depart is co-commissioned by LIFT, the National Centre for Circus Arts and Spitalfields Music, LeftCoast and Brighton Festival. Supported by Arts Council England and Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.
An Urban Heat project, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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