The Most Famous Graves in Highgate Cemetery East - A Guided Cemetery Tour

[@jorybennett5932]

An episode about famous death masks would be fantastic.

[@debbieohara9240]

Yes, I agree 👍

[@evalevy2909]

Oh yes I third this

[@Chezombie]

YES PLEASE!. I find this fascinating, and it's a great way to remember someone as well.

[@FrstAm]

Ditto

[@alibenkahn5092]

I just love this woman. Her erudition is phenomenal, traversing history, social science and plenty more. Keep up the good work!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@TheMuseumGuide Why the decision to wreck your channel with paranormal bs? so now you will only have them and only that rubbish? cause people interested in reality are not coming here any more!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 there’s nothing paranormal about this video?

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@TheMuseumGuide You forgot the short you put out 7 hours ago about collaborating with the paranormal cracked pot?

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

Yes, please, to death masks and more cemetery tours, including further forays into East and West Highgate. Fascinating as ever! Thanks, Jessica!

[@babyalienseverywhere184]

I LOVE this picture at 30:21, it's so rare to see pictures of people from this era showing emotional expression

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I love it so much. I was delighted when I found it.

[@midnight.spiritx]

This seriously remains my fave underrated channel! Your content is so entertaining!!

[@reyl6152]

Would love more videos like this in the style of walking and narrating in places like cemeteries! Great work as always

[@TealCheetah]

This graveyard is so enchanting with the natural foliage

[@Chezombie]

I bet it takes at least three days to do a full tour of this cemetery!. It's a cemetary I certainly intend to visit, but I am doing all my local ones first. I love walking round them on a sunny or frosty day with my dog (on a lead of course, providing dogs are allowed), and reading all the headstones, taking some photos then going home and googling all the names to learn about those people. I always think to myself if they came back to life today, they would find themselves in a totally different world. Cemeteries are also a must visit for anyone doing family tree research as well.

[@Spielmanjon]

Death Masks.. YES please. And the west side video in the rain and gloom.. So morbidly beautiful. I found the video really peaceful to watch. Amazing two part series, yes I just binged them... Thank you for an amazing tour!

[@kim-notkym..4976]

Please I'd love to see so much more, the magnificent 7, Paris, anywhere. And definitely death mask. Love all you do. Thank you Jessica ❤

[@elizaa3523]

Hell yeah. Wasn't expecting another video so soon. Fascinating.

[@tinasloan7322]

Hello Jessica! I’m from just north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I love your videos. Especially the cemetery tours. I walk cemeteries here and check out the unusual headstones. I also like to find the oldest ones and ones that no one visits anymore. I had a friend that put a thought in my mind that I always remember when I’m looking for forgotten graves. “When a person dies, they die twice. Once when they physically die. The second is the last time someone mentions their name.” So, at these forgotten graves I read them aloud to remember them and I try to leave something behind so the next person that passes that grave knows someone cares.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That is so lovely.

[@kellysouter4381]

Adams, there's a frood who really knows where his towel is!😊💗

[@Angelicwings1]

Absolutely.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Love it!

[@olivernemo7280]

Wonderful video Jessica many thanks I'm very much looking forward to anything you produce on death masks I find them very interesting especially the ones of notorious criminals. Off to buy you a coffee in appreciation of all the work you put into your videos. Best wishes Oliver

[@lmp8932]

Yes please to a 'death mask' video! I think most of us here would quite cheerfully watch any video you care to put up, so walk where you will and we will 'walk' with you 😍😁🦘🦘🦘

[@oliviasayshi7517]

Give me all the cemetery tours! Yours are entertaining and informative!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you like them!

[@jared1870]

Any cemetery is great. Thank you for this beautiful video.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RachJCullen]

Would love to see a video about death masks, and also more cemetery tours. They're so fascinating and peaceful.

[@samiaallaguis2701]

Thank you 🙏 Sooo much for all this wonderful knowledge ,part 2 was as enjoyable as part 1 , yes we should remember the departed one’s and the legacy that they left behind to continue where they left , to understand the future is to learn about the past I hope 🤞 the future generation continues where the past generation left off . I’m 70+years I still got my marble as we say maybe one day I’ll pay my respect to they when I find coach tour from Birmingham as I remember some of people that you mentioned . SENDING LOVE 💙❤️💜💝🥰RESPECT and BLESSINGS TO ALL WHO WENT BEFORE US AMEN 🙏🦋🙏🦋✌️🌈😇

[@linlouwho123]

I just found your channel and now I get part 2!!! Super excited. More please.😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Yay! Thank you!

[@karenkunz9226]

Yes, more tours of cemeteries please!! My favorite is the Monumental Cemetery in Milan.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I need to go!

[@tinajseemann]

Thank you so much for both the western and eastern tour of Highgate, Jessica! The problem with the typical brief holiday (* I'm a fellow 🍁 and the last time I was in London was but for a week in 2015-) is that there is no time to visit cemeteries! Yes! Take us to Pere LaChaise- had but a week in Paris in 2001- the Louvre was visited, but again, no cemetaries...

[@mistywolf312]

The east side is my favourite, west is ok but east has got an ambience that just floors you.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'm the opposite!

[@GodWearsGucci]

Jessica, this is the most beautiful cemetery. Thank you thank you!! 💕

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You are so welcome!

[@annettewillis2797]

Anything you do would be brilliant. I can definitely see why you were on a show called Eggheads! Such a brilliant tour of East Highgate. I am waiting for your next adventure!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Coming soon!

[@amandabell8827]

I love a cemetery tour! Please add more if you can, really enjoyed this one x

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! Will do!

[@mikevaughan4594]

I wish you could have been my history teacher as you make history come alive and the most interesting

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awww, thank you so much!

[@VampMedusa]

THIS!!!! This whole entire video! Brava 🤘🏻💀🖤

[@VampMedusa]

Even with a few audio mishaps

[@deborahwilliams1036]

I've been looking forward to this video!! Your west side video was the first time I saw your channel, and I'm hooked !!

[@debbieohara9240]

Great film 🎉I watched the first one a few days ago , so this second one was a treat ❤ Thank you 😊 🙏

[@brightphoebesays]

That was awesome! Enjoyed that! Must have been a lot of work!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I enjoy the work! Thank you so much.

[@shydotty2478]

At 16.40 I can hear another voice saying something while ur talking. We're you alone while recording this video? I thought you were. 😮 How spooky! Great video as always xx

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That is creepy!!! Hopefully just a passerby 😳

[@TheDailyWitch]

Yes to all the cemeteries you can travel to! Thank You!

[@emmamarson2105]

Appreciated very much. Please continue. - it’s fascinating. Mort lake might interest you - I believe Laurence of Arabia occupies a tent there. Also the Père la chaise - all interesting to know before ........ Again thank you, your voice is so easy for listening.

[@auntwestley]

The rainy weather tour really enhanced the benign neglect west cemetery whereas the sunny weather seems perfect for the east cemetery tour.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It's fate!

[@avantegarde-rl4vi]

I so enjoyed your video. Puts me back in time when I lived in England as a child and my brother and I would go to the local graveyards just looking at all the tomdstones and vaults. I wish when I was last in London I had gone to Highgate but I was involved in other things at the time. Maybe sometime.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Next time!

[@carolinealexander4394]

Loved this video. I’m hopeful you will do additional videos on the other of the 7 Cemeteries.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@carolinealexander4394 I will! But Pere lachaise will be next.

[@BarbaraCowdery]

So superb. Really so interesting & engaging. Thank you.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lindsaydelic9437]

yes to anything you want to produce! so engaging. you have inspired me to visit a few of those graveyards and museums.. death masks are fascinating.. and madame Tussaud is a great character to investigate too…. thank you 🙂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@LinzYoutube]

More cemetery videos, please! Thank you, this was so peaceful and very interesting.

[@robertcombs55]

You are outstanding...great Posts!!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you kindly!

[@robertcombs55]

@@TheMuseumGuide If you were a Teacher; there would be a LONG list of people wanting to take your class!!

[@bethshaffer-scott9984]

Thank-you! Fascinating ❤️I would love to watch tours of the other cemeteries or death masks!

[@margaretbuckley9309]

Wow wonderful video jess you are a mind of information Great to learn about all these famous people and even the not so famous Thanks agsin for your time and effort 👍🙏

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much!

[@margaretbuckley9309]

@@TheMuseumGuide keep up the good work 👍

[@kathrynpartin3351]

I stumbled onto your west tour today and am excited to see the east was ready too. Now I have another channel to follow and love. Cannot wait to see what you have already filmed. Death mask would be so fascinating. New subscriber from middle Georgia.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much!

[@kathygraham6251]

yes please, loved it

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@bobgreenwood1066]

Very well done. Thanks 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome!

[@lukemason2981]

I’ve just discovered my new addiction ! I’ve loved walking through old graveyards and churches for years especially when I’m around the country visiting or exploring.. my wife and family think I’m strange for doing so but not only am I looking at old architecture or art I’m also looking and feeling for the age of the place as I eat and sleep history.. but my favourite is looking at graveyards and graves and thinking about the forgotten.. also being that close to such a famous great person when they lived .. love your videos keep posting. My favourite place is pier la chaise Paris for jim Morrisons grave 👏🏼

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’ll be making a Pere Lachaise video in November!

[@lukemason2981]

@@TheMuseumGuide don’t forget Jim 🩵 🚪

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@lukemason2981 I wouldn’t dream of it!

[@ChavJag]

I've been looking forward to this 2nd episode

[@YoAuntyMihkoh]

Great to see you again! I love your videos :)

[@angiekroll1015]

Highlight of my week.

[@crispinmag66]

Love your tours. Fascinating history !

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you like them!

[@kickstartedwards6916]

Great film many thanks

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Patricia-zq5ug]

I love wandering around old graveyards, so would welcome videos of any you choose to visit.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Coming soon!

[@Corgis175]

Always interesting at High Gate.

[@eleanorlaurent2303]

I always learn something interesting in your videos, and it's often unexpected! Exile on Coldharbour Lane is probably in my Top 10 albums of all time (and I'm old, so that's decades of options 😂), but I've never looked into the band at all. I'm definitely going to remedy that now 🩷, its just a weird coincidence for them to pop up in my YT world of today, which is so very different than my world when I discovered that album. Great video as usual 🩷

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@bronwynodonnell8548]

Please do as many as you can they are so interesting cheers Bronwyn 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@WOLF-id7lq]

Love your videos

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@cindysmith3224]

Hi Jessica, enjoy your videos, probably the closest I will ever get to England.

[@melissacoulter708]

YEAH!! 2 videos within days of each other other! I just hit play but already sad that it’s only 34 mins..

[@amandafalls9410]

love all your videos

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@garywarren-gh8os]

Greetings from Poteet texas.l like all of your videos.

[@chrisball3778]

I love the fact that George Eliot's domestic arrangements were considered insanely scandalous in her time, but would be considered completely normal today. She had a series of basically monogamous, heterosexual relationships. That's literally it.

[@Cocoanutty0]

There’s a movie about her with Hugh Grant, and it’s just a cute love story. It’s so funny watching it being like, “oh, she’s a little eccentric and has lots of friends!” And then remembering that was scandalous back then 😅

[@FrstAm]

Jessica, great work on ur vids, glad I clicked, subbed. While at Pere Lachaise Cemetery will you research death masks there? Madame Tussauds started it all. I'm interested in Napoleon's family. I look forward to future videos.✌️

[@PamPoarch-ht5qn]

Fascinating!! More on death masks please

[@TheMuseumGuide]

One of my favourite topics!

[@That_Emily]

Would love a video on death masks! I always love all the video ideas you bring up

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@cabbagetownrose5931]

Great tour! I have visited Highgate and Pere Lachaise but not the other London cemeteries so a video on those would be most welcome.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'm thinking of doing Brompton next. :)

[@judithparker4608]

Shrines...New World...Heritage....Sites

[@TheMuseumGuide]

very true

[@philiplafleur4504]

PSA: Exercise and diet are often not enough to maximize your chances against heart attack. You mentioned Douglas Adams died of a massive heart attack after a work out at just 43. Current cardiology thinking is the LDL level is the key. Had a massive heart attack myself, which I miraculously survived. Thought I was fine so I was genuinely blindsided. At that time my LDL was 177. With meds and lifestyle changes it is now 29. Anything under a value of 55 is acceptable. Get your LDL tested folks. Heart disease is a killer.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

a very good bit of advice!

[@CatherineHutchinson-s9s]

Just found you and I just know I’m going to binge watch you if I don’t get all my housework done I’m going to blame you 😂😂

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’ll gladly take the blame!

[@celticmoon111]

Hi I found you through Your visit with Dalen. You're awesome so I joined love your videos so much . From central Ny. Would love death masks ty🎉

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much!

[@robertcombs55]

Do you have a episode of Westminster Abbey? It fascinates everyone!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’d love to!

[@kunstboka73]

Yes, please. 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@julesjma]

Coming over in December for the holidays and i will not let myself miss visiting this place AGAIN. Are you Canadian, American? Would love to live there again. Miss it TERRIBLY. 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Canadian!

[@sgtcrabfat]

22.54.. definitely, went there a number of years ago, very interesting and huge place.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'm heading there in November. :)

[@Zermatt2024]

Please do Pere LaChaise. One can spend days there admiring the art and history.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’m filming it in November!

[@l.l.-kz7mn]

Loved it!

[@amb163]

Yes! Do videos on the other cemeteries and the desk masks! Speaking of cemeteries, have you ever read The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman? I always wondered if he based the graveyard in his story on a real place.

[@urielillustrations3]

I think the statue was actually St. Michael not St. George as it had wings. That’s why it said ‘of St. Michael’s on the inscription.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ how could I be so dumb? Thank you!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I didn’t realise more than one Saint slayed a dragon!

[@urielillustrations3]

@@TheMuseumGuide love your channel by the way. I think it’s St. Michael depicted slaying the devil as a dragon at the apocalypse. St Michael is better known as the Arch Angel Michael.

[@rebeccashelton1946]

Douglas Adams was also abit of a computer geek. He knew the computer language Ascii. The 42nd character in Ascii is an asterisk and it stands for anything you want. So 42 ,which is the answer to life ,the universe and everything is whatever you want it to be.

[@garycarpenter6433]

I don't mind walking around a graveyard 🪦 in the daytime...at night is another matter you don't know what would follow you home 🏡

[@garycarpenter6433]

That would be interesting walking around the cemetery 🪦 and just saying what to look at

[@i.b.5200]

Where is the grave of James Thomson B.V.? I love his poem "The City of Dreadful Night".

[@tommcdonald1873]

Please do a video of Pere-Lachaise. And then, we debate who has the better cemeteries, Paris or London. I would think the results would be close.

[@dejonchristie9245]

You did tell us the meaning of the shaking hands in the west side.

[@evalevy2909]

Why is some of the cemetery immaculate and other areas they conciously choose to leave in disrepair?

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I don’t think any section is immaculate?

[@avalonkerr8332]

Maybe something on graves with books and text beyond names?

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’m not sure I follow!

[@avalonkerr8332]

@@TheMuseumGuide Apologies! I just love when there are books represented in graveyards; and also, when there are quotes or other writings other than names. I'm not an expert and sometimes these writings are quite cryptic...why a particular quote, etc. is chosen is always interesting to me.

[@evelinepotter4551]

Anything about cemetaries, Death Masks and stuff is welcome.

[@angietunstall2555]

Jessica, as near to the entrance to the east side of Highgate, you would have seen a veritable sea of marble, tabletop top grave markers predominantly bearing the Star of David Amongst those markers, you can see when looking closely black marble marker of Farzad Bazoft He was born in 1959 on Iran and was a freelance journalist for The Observer newspaper in England In 1990, he was covering a story about an explosion in a Baghdad (Iraq) arms factory. He was arrested in September 1989 at Baghdad airport, awaiting his flight home to London. He was accused of spying for Israel in Iraq and thrown into Abu Graibh prison. Following a one-day, secret trial, he was found guilty, and his execution (by hanging) was ordered by no other than Saddam Hussain. The sentence was carried out on 15 March 1990. His body was repatriated back to England, a resting place secured in Highgate (you have to be really rich to get a spot in there) and a black marble marker, bearing his last words before he was executed, paid for by The Observer. I remember it being reported on the news, and some months afterwards, I happened to go to Highgate, completely unaware he was there. But as soon as I saw his name on his grave, the story came back to me. BTW Did you know that Bob Hoskins is buried with other people in a very private part of the east side, which is delineated by an iron fence and padlocked gates. 😊

[@thedogschannel.4769]

As someone who’s been interested in history for many years, I find videos like this so fascinating. The overgrown foliage adds to the beauty. But I can’t help feeling that maybe, just maybe, in the state that it’s reached , it’s now become rather disrespectful to the people buried there. Perhaps something could be done to improve the look of the cemetery. Not withstanding the fact that all those interred there still have living relatives who I’m sure would love to see it in a tidier state.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

The overgrown state is what makes it so desirable for new interments!

[@thedogschannel.4769]

@@TheMuseumGuide still disrespectful to those already there though.

[@eileenbass952]

Does Highgate cemetery not have a gardener? It looks very untidy.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It is a conscious choice to leave the cemetery in a semi- wild state. Part 1 (the West side) goes into detail about this. :)

[@WMW-82]

Jeremy Beadle was the farther of prank when i was growing up in 80s he used to do Beadles about a Punked/triggerhappy type prank show

[@rickh2015]

Death masks videos you say? Well yes! More cemetery walks? Well of course!

[@BadKitty360]

Death masks? Yes,Yes & Yes.

[@Tkizuka]

Mahler! As in Ladies Who Lunch…

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I was lucky enough to see Patti Lupone sing this!

[@Nancy-dg6hp]

Ethel Mae Collins marker. That's St. Michael, not St. George. Michael tramples the beast, while George always slays from atop a horse. And Ethel Mae apparently was from St. Michael's.

[@aristrianta3073]

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[@TheMuseumGuide]

I wish I could speak Greek and help you!

[@eileenbass952]

Death masks, yes please Jessica.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I'm on it!

[@jodowse1918]

Death mask yes please

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It's in the works!

[@BarryKaiser-l2x]

Findagrave says that he is buried in the West Highgate Cemetery..

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Who?

[@BarryKaiser-l2x]

Bruce Reynolds 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@BarryKaiser-l2x He's definitely on the East side.

[@kjmav10135]

You missed it! If you go to the back of George Eliot’s grave, the person who is buried head-to-head with her is her true love-George Henry Lewes! They are discretely head - to - head for all eternity.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I am racked with regret. How did I not know this?!?! 😭😭😭

[@kjmav10135]

@@TheMuseumGuide Next time you’re over there, go check it out! He was her true love. George and Mary Ann would have married, but his wife would not allow divorce as she was very Catholic. I’m a bit of a George Eliot fan-girl! The ONLY reason I went to the cemetery was to visit her grave and pay my respects. Of course, I saw Marx-can’t miss him. But I didn’t realize that, had I just turned around, I would have seen Spencer! These are great videos. Keep it up!

[@ChristopherSantiago-e9p]

HAJJ Sajjadah

[@ChristopherSantiago-e9p]

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