The City of London's Lovely Victorian Garden Cemetery

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This was a wonderful video, I have always had an interest in graveyards and cemeteries and have visited many, but I still have to visit this one.

[@meowsthree]

Very interesting and well-filmed video! Loved it!

[@DrDavidOwens]

I'm delighted you enjoyed the video. David

[@spitfirekev]

I just love your videos. So calming & educational. I'm needing to get a drone for my channel I think. Thank you muchly for sharing.

[@DrDavidOwens]

Thank you for your kind comments. I have certainly enjoyed flying my drones over the past six years. They have come a long way. David

[@388Caroline]

Thank you. It’s so lovely to see the beautiful funerary architecture🙏

[@jennywallis65]

What a gorgeous place. Just love the Victorian Gothic architecture. Fascinating .

[@trishchapman6769]

The memorial at 6.45 minutes is on the place where the remains of one of my husbands family members and her young baby were moved to. Charlotte and her daughter Charlotte died in the mid 1850's

[@k.f.3282]

Very sad

[@susanjones5322]

Really amazing. I loved seeing the fox looking so at home there! Thank you.

[@lisasainty8949]

Have been so many times as almost all of my family are laid to rest there. My mum and her surviving siblings, often go in the spring to look at the wonderful rhododendrons etc.. they take a small picnic and after paying their respects, sit on the benches to eat their lunch. Mum says it’s not morbid, she sees it as sitting with her family and past loved ones. There’s a book of remembrance and most are in it. So on birthdays they go as the page will be open on the name of a loved one, with a short poem. It’s not a cheap cemetery to choose for your final resting place but east London has always been our home.

[@DrDavidOwens]

Thank you for your lovely comments. Yes, visiting burial places is not morbid, though I usually shed a tear especially when I read inscriptions on the headstones of those who died very young. David

[@Sebastian-ip2wc]

If you purchase a grave and are buried, I think it is wrong for strangers to be buried in your grave after 70 years without the consent of the family. Also turning the stone around so the original owners are facing backwards is disrespectful.

[@DrDavidOwens]

I am sure that there are many who would agree with you.

[@annfahy2589]

Agreed

[@susanbackus157]

I am 72 and my great great grandparents died in Germany. I am sure that happened to them. Makes me sick…..

[@frenchustube]

The problem is that we don’t have enough space to bury everyone. In France they take you out , put the bones in a box and put the box with your name in an ossuary! Or if more family members are going to use the same grave they will put the bones at the bottom of it and put the new casket on top!

[@Sebastian-ip2wc]

@@frenchustube We had Ossuary’s in the United Kingdom during the Medieval period. If you purchase a plot, that is your plot and if the council wants to remove the bones, then they should have to have permission from relatives. Once the land is used up the councils should have to find alternative ways to dispose of bodies, but they should not disturb those already buried. It is desecrating a grave. Four adults is enough people going into my plot

[@walkabout16]

In London's heart, a haven lies, Where souls in silence softly sigh, Amongst the trees and blooms so fair, The City of London's garden rare. Inscribed in stone, a thousand tales, Whispered by the gentle gales, Of lives once lived, now laid to rest, In this sanctuary, divinely blessed. Each monument a work of art, Crafted by hands, aching heart, Echoes of Victorian grace, In this tranquil, hallowed space. Majestic arches, towering spires, Evoke the souls' eternal desires, A symphony of stone and bloom, In this city's quiet tomb. Here, history's whispers softly speak, Of heroes bold and lovers meek, Of artists, poets, thinkers wise, Beneath London's ever-watchful skies. Amidst the shadows, paths wind deep, Through verdant aisles, where memories sleep, And as we wander, hearts entwine, With the spirits of this sacred shrine. The City of London's lovely charm, A testament to lives once warm, In this Victorian garden fair, May peace and solace always share.

[@DrDavidOwens]

Thank you for adding the wonderful poem. David

[@rosinairvine8493]

Amazing very interesting..

[@phyllisprior2989]

Beautiful 😢

[@jennifermurphy899]

I really enjoy watching your videos. I live in America. I love cemeteries. I love your stories. Your cemeteries are different than ours.There are some beautiful graves there.

[@sharky5377]

Excellent video.

[@Barry-c8e]

AWESOME CEMETERY

[@DeborahGrocott-qe3ks]

What amazing knowledge you have,i feel like I was walking around the beautiful gardens with you ,i hope that someone in the future will walk around the cemetery that i end in,and your soft voice can be heard saying my name ,truly excellent video

[@pamrapp5474]

Very nicely done...thk you 👌

[@GraveVisitations]

Beautiful elaborate monuments and cemeteries

[@janetgilesrudland1028]

What a beautiful place this is so full of History and some of the headstones are amazing we have an old Victorian graveyard where i live its full of Quakers and a lot of them are responsible for the way our city is today one of them James Reckitt his factory still stands and employs many people i always think that school children should be able to tour the graveyard and learn all about our citys history, l really enjoyed this video 😊😊

[@redmi9834]

If you ever ho to Milan in Italy, they have a soectacular cemetery there called the Monumental Cemetery.

[@MaryBradley-s3s]

We have Highgate in London.

[@DeborahIsaacs-nx4dw]

Very lovely video, i enjoyed it. Thanx😊

[@cjmiller2037]

Beautiful monuments❤

[@margaretbeck8339]

Beautiful

[@elainemeyer-hp6ye]

Beautiful

[@nadaleenbrady8183]

Just found you and subbed! Love ur content Ohio USA

[@birdsong9604]

Very interesting thank you

[@suesherwin9735]

I have many family and friends and neighbours in this cemetery

[@ashleigh1968]

Brookwood cemetery in Surrey is very much like this place

[@КлавдияАнчукова-у2й]

Я считаю что каждый человек имеет право на достойное захоронение и никто не может беспокоить его прах.привет из прекрасной россии 💞💕💖 всем добра и любви.🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

[@DrDavidOwens]

Спасибо за ваш комментарий. David

[@GuessMyName234]

Theres a graveyard near me and it has a weeping angel on the grave. It's really big and well sculpted

[@Cyril-sf8xe]

The narrator sounds like Anthony Hopkins.

[@bethr8756]

All that for rotting flesh

[@andrearoyd2942]

Knew it THE **** BACKGROUND music - please just do your narration.

[@karenweaver134]

A lot of grieving woman….. how come no grieving men?

[@sej9231]

Beautiful