The Most Famous Graves in Highgate Cemetery West

[@sharronhullock7180]

Just paid this magical place a visit on Tuesday (20.8.24), and took the tour. Absolutely mesmorized by it all and spent the whole day there. I would happily go back and take the tour again. Foxes wandering about, joining us in the courtyard. Funnily, it was a case of who was watching who. The friends of Highgate do a brilliant job and I can honestly say that Highgate was the highlight of my London visit.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@sharronhullock7180 I love that family of foxes! It’s a mum and four kits.

[@AurielGrace]

I give tours of our Victorian Cemetery. People still vandalize it. The cemetery is like taking a walk through a wooded garden. It always smells good from the flowers blooming. The statues and headstones are being repaired. Cemetery’s can teach us so much about the history of our communities

[@eileenweeks1815]

I like walking through a cemetery. It's so peaceful and quiet. No people or dogs.❤ Sometimes I put a flower on children's graves who died from the flu of 1918. They are usually buried all alone. No other family buried close to them. So sad. 😢😢

[@AurielGrace]

@@eileenweeks1815 That is so nice of you!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

@@AurielGrace I agree! Which cemetery?

[@AurielGrace]

@@TheMuseumGuide the Historic First Presbyterian Cemetery in Greensboro N.Carolina

[@MagdalenaTheremin]

So true. It is very sad to disrespect the cemeteries it is for me the same as if someone comes and demolises the inside of the museum. Cemeteries are also a piece of art.

[@redarmy102]

Great video. My Dad is buried in a natural burial site. It's a lovely place and it's exactly where Dad would want to be as he loved nature so much.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That sounds lovely. ❤️

[@LauPineda]

Thank you for the tour! I visited the UK once, and while walking through one of the gardens/cemeteries in London, I couldn't help but notice that the line between life and dead blurred, and what was left was a bit of sadness that extraordinary people are not here for me to meet, but any morbid or fear feeling was gone. I am a Christian, and some might say “very religious,” so a healthy fear for the other world and its inhabitants is a familiar feeling among my people 😂 but that experience changed the way I see dead. Also, some of the extraordinary and ordinary lives of people were interesting. Some Christian writers have said that Puritans knew how to die, and I guess if you are surrounded by the dead and you prepare for it, your mind changes about it. I don't know. I appreciate your channel and all I get to learn through it. Thank you again.

[@mt.shasta6097]

@LauPineda, I was raised Roman Catholic, and am an American decended from Puritans. Christians aren't supposed to fear death. It's the beginning of our real life. As Mary, Queen of Scots said just before she was beheaded, "In my end is my beginning."

[@LauPineda]

@@mt.shasta6097 Right! Maybe I should have added the “spiritual realm,” as in demons and apparitions in cemeteries, but not for me dying per se.

[@ayekajurai6224]

thank you for being so respectful!

[@jenniferd6242]

One of the most beautiful cemeteries I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@FiGee1368]

I love that cemetery, such a gothic masterpiece 😍 I live in the NW of the UK and don't get down to London etc very often anymore, but I adore your videos. You take us on some ' out of the way' gems I wouldn't have ever seen on a visit to London; as well as the more uSual points of interest, and for that I thank you. So glad I found you, and I highly recommend your channel to everyone. Bravo to you, and I look forward to many more tours👍🥰

[@TroyKristoffer]

This is (so far) the favorite cemetery I've ever visited. I love telling people about it. Thank you for featuring it and sharing your fantastic knowledge about it! I'm sure to watch this video many times.

[@andreadalton3489]

Fabulous, charming, respectful and really interesting. Insane how one can live in a place and know so little about it. You are a real gem, Jessica, thank you so much! 👍👍👍👍👍👍✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@treacybird975]

I’ve watched many video tours of Highgate Cemetery, but this is by far the most knowledgeable and interesting. I look forward to watching your other tours. Thank you.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

The symbolism was fascinating, not something that had even occurred to me before. A very informative, respectful hour in your knowledgeable company that just flew by. Thank you, and I am looking forward to the East side next week.

[@sharlene6591]

I visited the UK for the first time last year.I visited Highgate Cemetery and went on a tour hosted by the volunteers and highly recommend. Highgate Cemetery is stunningly beautiful and peaceful , but I did feel a bit spooked in certain sections when off exploring by myself (spotted a cheeky fox prancing around a couple of headstones) I really enjoyed watching this video. Well done😊

[@gracafaria1861]

Amazing tour...beautiful and poetic place! 🌹

[@paulinemoriarty3627]

This place is amazing,fascinating,beautiful, we only managed to walk around one side, can’t wait to return to the UK to see the other side

[@susiefairfield7218]

Love your channel; your videos are very personal, informative, very well edited, super captivating and thoroughly enjoyable Thank You 💕

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Wow, thank you!

[@soarornor]

I’d second that. You’re a great tour guide. When you go to Tate, could you focus in on the painting “The Death of Chatterton”? One of my favorites. Would love to know more about it.

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

It's very overcast here in my tiny spot int Ont. CAN., and this video was the perfect accompaniment! I completely agree with you that natural burial is the way to go. Unfortunately, there are only hybrid sites in Ontario at the moment, no true, not-part-of-a-regular-cemetery, natural burial sites. And the cost to be buried in a hybrid site is out of my reach! I absolutely loved this video and will be watching for the East Side, next week. Thanks, Jessica. Sharing! I forgot to add, I'm so glad that nature has been allowed to have the upper hand. Humans desperately need to re-think having every bit of their property and the land around them, manicured and sterile.

[@toakasi6425]

Im fascinated with restoration recovery of headstones 🪦 cemetery research ❤ superb ⭐ very deep

[@jeanross7430]

I really like old graveyards where you can see and learn about the people buried and their stories. Europe to has fascinating graveyards too, many with pictures of the person too. Graveyards are quiet and peaceful. Thank you for the tour.

[@soarornor]

I love the ones with pictures. That’s an amazing custom that doesn’t seem as widespread as it ought to be.

[@laraleyendecker2885]

Hello Jessica! Really enjoying the places you go and the knowledge you share. Looking forward for more!❤

[@kim-notkym..4976]

My favourite place . Tyty . Xx

[@mariadeissinger646]

What a beautiful cementary!😲

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I agree!

[@LadyLeda2]

My cousin Kim and I used to go visit this old cemetery that was walking distance from her house. Our favorite place to hang out was a 12 year old little girls grave. Her name was Violeta and she was carved into a statue on top of her grave. Life size and dressed in her Victorian clothes. Very beautiful little girl. Someday when I go back to visit I would like to go see Violeta again.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

That sounds like the plot to a children's novel! I would love to see her grave.

[@MagdalenaTheremin]

I will also see her grave. It is so sad when a child dies. In victorian times was it propably tuberculosis or pneumonia that killed her.

[@linlouwho123]

Thank you so much. This was so interesting and respectful. You have a lovely voice. Looking forward to the East Side.

[@annettewillis2797]

Such a great, well informed tour Jessica! I went on a tour of Highgate more than 20 years ago and was very keen at the time to see Cristina Rosetti's grave. Since the public were not able to view the Rosetti or Dicken's plots, I never saw them so am so happy you were able to take us there. The cemetery was much more overgrown then and it was also pouring with rain. I don't remember seeing modern graves on the tour I did. I have a long fascination with cemeteries and was so pleased that you mentioned many of the common symbols that were popular and fashionable on tombstones, not just in Highgate, but worldwide. Australia has a few cemeteries that took inspiration from Highgate. I did see the tree in the Circle of Lebanon and it was very impressive. You are the perfect person to explore cemeteries! Respectful, knowledgeable and the perfect pace. I look forward to not only Highgate East but forays into the artistic and bizarre world of Paris cemeteries too. Thanks so much. ALL your videos are brilliant. I do enjoy the longer tours. You are the perfect tour guide!

[@SelkieTears]

this tour was so lovely and so informative, thank you so much for sharing! i have such a love of woodsy quiet cemeteries like this. i've never been to highgate (hopefully one day i will get to explore it) but it reminds me a lot of the okunoin cemetery at koyasan in japan, that i've had the honour of visiting twice now!

[@diannelavoie5385]

Thanks for the tour in that amazing, beautiful cemetery. How I'd love to wander those walkways and see the wonderful architecture of the gravesites.

[@mariemorgan7759]

Highgate is the definition of Gothic! Thank you for the tour, I always wanted to go to London.💕🙏

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It really is!

[@That_Emily]

i am so here for the longer videos. give me all your content, hours of it pls

[@bryan3550]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing your insights. There is just so much to see and so little time, even in retirement..! 😊

[@zdl1965]

Yay, I had been waiting for this video!

[@eleanorlaurent2303]

Excellent! Im very much looking forward to next week 🩷

[@alpeggio]

Very interesting, thanks!

[@leamacleod5903]

Enjoyable and low.key stroll. Well.done

[@micheleshave323]

This my first experience of your channel. I have a love of old cemeteries and this one is a gem. I have never seen a cemetery that was also a woodland park. What a wonderful idea and it’s absolutely beautiful. I wonder why it is that the public is not allowed access to the whole cemetery? There is nothing like this where I live in Virginia, USA. If there was I would be there all the time. But I have to say that as much as I love this cemetery I am planning for a natural burial in a natural burial cemetery about 2 1/2 hours away from me in a wooded area in the mountains. I would love to have the pleasure of going on one of your tours in person. Thank you so much for this one on KZbin. 🙏🌿🌳

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I think certain areas are restricted for safety reasons! It’s extremely overgrown in places. I tripped twice while filming this 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@nancytestani1470]

Wonderful..so amazing.

[@deznat]

Wow! Stumbled across this channel. I love history. Especially English history. Your knowledge is wonderful and your voice is lovely.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you so much!

[@nancytestani1470]

Love the lion statue and that magnificent dog statue. Thanks.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You're very welcome!

[@Qiriyie]

I love love LOVE Highgate! Thank you for this wonderful tour!

[@narelleberes5809]

Oh, I look forward to your videos. I especially love the cemeteries . Thank you ❤

[@TheMuseumGuide]

So nice of you :)

[@noTonThursday]

Loved it, thank you! Looking forward to part 2! 🥳

[@fianorian]

Absolutely fascinating.

[@lauranagle1577]

Another fantastic video Jessica thank you so much. I've seen lots of tours of Highgate (still planning to go myself someday!) and this was one of the most interesting ones. Your passion for story telling and your ability to share the atmosphere shines, as opposed to just presenting the facts, which you also do wonderfully! Looking forward to part two and would definitely be interested in seeing you guide through the rest of the 'Magnificent Seven' ❤🪦❤

[@kmaildavid]

Fascinating, informative and well done. Thank you!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kennethwu115]

So beautiful and atmospheric

[@olivernemo7280]

Excellent video many thanks for making and posting

[@gemmaparker7231]

I really enjoyed this. So informative and fun. Thank you

[@carolinealexander4394]

What an absolutely amazing tour. I found it to be entertaining, informative, and utterly engaging. A visually stunning video and likely the only way I’ll ever see Highgate Cemetery. Thank you and now I’m on to the East Side tour…..❤

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I’m so happy you’re here! I’ll be posting Pere Lachaise in February-ish. :)

[@dilihopa]

I have several ancestors buried here. This was very interesting.

[@debbieohara9240]

Thank you ❤Ive just discovered your channel 😊 I live in Scotland now and was born in England, and I remember visiting Highgate cemetary in the 1980s with a friend. Its a very magical ✨️ place steeped in History xx

[@jenntaa]

awesome video x by far the best i ve seen on this cemetary thank you x

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Wow, thank you!

[@evetheoracle]

Thank you for another great video! Excited for next week’s video as well. Appreciate you and all your hard work ✨

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You are so welcome!

[@margaretbuckley9309]

Wow that was an amazing tour of the beautiful highgate cemetery thank you for all the info and your time May they all find peace 🙏🌹

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You're very welcome.

[@margaretbuckley9309]

@@TheMuseumGuide 👍

[@webrarian]

A nice mixture of the remembered and forgotten. And then there's the story of Lizzie Siddal...

[@mt.shasta6097]

Poor Lizzie. Stay away from self-centered "artistes."

[@Dragon-Lady]

Wow. I never knew a cemetery could be so beautiful, and I love cemeteries! KZbin has been recommending your videos to me for about a week, and tonight I decided to check them out. I'm so glad I did. This is the third I've watched. Subscribed to the channel. Now off to Highgate East I go!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@valeriehughes2357]

Love this video. Was born in England but never was able to go to Highgate Cemetery. My great grandmother is buried there. Such interesting cemetery.

[@kaytaosborn]

I’ve never seen something like this 40:57!! So interesting! So happy I found your channel 🫶🏻. You always put so much history into your videos and little facts! I honestly can’t get enough! 😵‍💫🤘🏾 I hope you have a happy holiday! 💞🌟

[@nancytestani1470]

Amazing home.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

It really is!

[@MagnaQuies]

This was brilliant! Thank you!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You're so welcome!

[@juliewaterfield1804]

this is my first time with you and i thoroughly enjoyed it. you are an amazingly good guide. going looking for more of your listings. thank you for sharing this.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Quartzcoffin]

Such a beautiful cemetery and wonderful tour❤ thank you

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome!

[@flashrobbie]

Thank you, Jessica.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome.

[@CatherineHutchinson-s9s]

First time watching this extremely knowledgeable young lady, I sat transfixed the whole way through and will definitely be watching everything you have uploaded… thank you

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Welcome aboard!

[@Lisa-x3n5x]

Aussie here. Loved this! Thankyou

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@archygirl1750]

I just found your channel and I love it! The tour was so interesting and you are such a wonderful tour guide. I am visiting London next October and Highgate Cemetery is top on my list of places to visit. Thank you for your wonderful channel.

[@Phoenix-Crafts]

Thank you, very much enjoyed the tour.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jerrysmith-h4i]

I have never watched one of your voids. Well all I can say is my bad lol. I have been through Highgate with other people , but never one as good as you. your presentation, your description was spot on, you never got in a hurry and took all the time needed to describe a monument or gravesite, You speak so clearly and have a very mellow tone in your voice. Keep up the good work and I will be watching...

[@colettefleck9238]

Thank you so much for bringing the cemetery to life. Really enjoy your such professional commetery and such wisdom, and knowledge.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you kindly!

[@sandrabustos3045]

I just loved your highgate cemetery tour. It was very informative and very interesting. I just love this kind of tours. Thank you so much for your videos. 1i came by your channel quite by accident and I’m glad I did. I will be following you from now on.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you, and welcome!

[@opheliagrove666]

Thank you for sharing . Highgate is such a beautiful cemetery and the history is fascinating .

[@meowsthree]

What a fantastic video!

[@Corgis175]

What a tour.

[@lmp8932]

Thank you once again for an interesting tour 🙂When I was a teenager I lived very close to a very big cemetery, Botany cemetery in Sydney's eastern suburbs (NSW Oz). They had what we called 'little houses' with the photos of the dead inside on the outside walls. On holidays and weekends the families of the deceased would visit their families inside. The doors were opened, they dusted etc, said prayers and some sang, then they had picnics. They were mostly Italian families - we 'immigrant Brits, thought it was most odd but very interesting. We were even invited in sometimes but... I wish I had now! When there were bad storms the graves in the older part of the cemetery closest to the sea lost coffins and skeletal remains were flung about on the sand. Interesting! It was so large, I once rode a horse around it. I think that it has been renamed and tidied up a lot since then, it was over 50 years ago and I left Sydney long ago. I still love the old cemeteries though and visit any we come across in our travels. Thank you for doing these wonderful tours! 😁🦘🦘🦘

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

I had very similar experiences at Waverley Cemetery. It’s right on the coast between Brontë and Clovelly beaches/suburbs. I too remember seeing the European families sitting around eating and tending to their loved ones resting spots - I was so curious but shy and cautious at the same time. When I was a teenager my friend talked about how homeless men had once lived in caves below the cemetery on the coastal cliffs. He said that the authorities had removed the people residing there and that the caves had been destroyed in order to prevent any possible return. I had so badly wanted to investigate this area, but it would have been incredibly dangerous if not impossible so I’m glad that I didn’t attempt it as a deluded teenager 🙂 Thanks for the memories.

[@lmp8932]

@@SecretSquirrelFun I went to MJGHS in the early 70s, we were taken to Waverley Cemetery as part of a tour for the history class to see some of the famous buried there, including Henry Lawson and Fanny Durack. I went back a few times over the years, if you want a grave with a view it's a good spot. We were told about the caves too and I'm sure, as fellow dopey teenagers it sounded like an adventure for myself and a couple of friends to investigate. Of course we never did do that!

[@CarolineStevenson-s2e]

Oh my word this video is just beautiful I’m hooked! I’ve been to Highgate cemetery 3 times now twice with a tour guide and yet I’m learning more interesting things from this video than I did then 😅 welldone! Xx

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you!

[@adamm2693]

i have rung on many bells cast by the Mears family and their successors, fascinating to see their family resting place ! I also never knew that, or never thought about the broken column as an allegory! Thank you

[@DJL78]

This was wonderful. Thank you so much!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You are so welcome!

[@Kat_._.44]

39:15 Germans also say „there is no bad weather, only bad clothing“ 😄 I totally love your videos, thanks so much for your great work 🩵🧡

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! 😃

[@Qiriyie]

Danes say this too!😊

[@nancytestani1470]

Man, must of been a ton of work. Yes, I believe some trees should be cleaned up and checking them if they’re dead.

[@donellamackenzie6331]

Lovely to see the simple grave. of the beautiful actress Jean Simmons who starred in so many films.

[@jack2breeze]

I saw Wham! in Oakland California in 1985. There they debuted Last Christmas in the middle of summer.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

What a gig!

[@Kenzalina_]

I am so happy I found your channel. ❤

[@ElizabethW62]

I just discovered your channel & I'm so glad I did! I've been to England & I long to go back, as it's such a beautiful place. Like many others, I'm also a taphophile, so it's an absolute pleasure to be with you on your tours. 😊

[@deborahbolton3417]

Thank you for sharing this video with me. Yeah I know it’s morbid, but I love the stonework and the history. Thank you!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@angiekroll1015]

Yeah! We get Jessica on Monday! ‘Entrance.’ Love it.

[@LaurenSnowofLondon]

What a great, well informed tour, thank you. I would love to be interred in one of those grand mausoleums, what a status symbol.

[@rz9305]

Thank you so much for making this

[@maryprice5417]

It is an incredible place to visit. An ancestor of my husbands is buried there in a paupers grave. Sadly talking to our guide, she is almost certainly lying beneath what is now a pathway.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awww, that is so sad. And so common!

[@k.f.3282]

So sorry

[@souledout3791]

A dream vacation would be Highgate Cemetery and Pere Lachaise Cemetery tours. As an American, and not internationally traveled, I have enjoyed over thirty years of cemetery traversing across our country. Although not published, I have written several journals ,with verses ,dates and photos, of mainly Victorian graves. It’s been a VERY interesting hobby . Thank You for sharing this beautiful video with us.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You’re very welcome! Look out for Pere Lachaise in December.

[@kathleenminton1200]

It's a amazing place visited last year did a tour, thoroughly recommended, fabulous film thank you really enjoyed this ❤

[@MrSkosig]

I so enjoyed this little film thank you ❤

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it! You're very welcome.

[@jeanmkaufmann]

This is such a beautiful cemetery. I look forward yo part 2. 🙂🇨🇦

[@maryellengrayberg9146]

I watch videos many people that tour cemeteries but, I must say you are the most informed person to date on this cemetery! Thank you very much for this in depth video on highgate. I look forward to your videos in the future.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you! I do a lot of research for every video.

[@ChrisSmith-ls7mb]

Thanks great video. We where just there for our 2nd visit to the west side. I took pictures of a lot of same tombstones. I like the research them later. We also visited Kensil green cemetery. I took a picture of painting of beautiful red head at Guild hall and the painting was by Rossettii. How cool is that. Thanks. Chris and Sandra of Canada PS I found a possible ancestor, the name is right, the dates look right but I am a Smith so research will have to be done.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Very cool!

[@phil-bailey-cox]

Highgate is on my bucket list of places to go before I get too old to travel. I love cemeteries and my husband and I go to them in every trip. The one in Reykjavík, Iceland Is beautiful. My family immigrated from various places around London in the 1700 to Newfoundland and then to the Appalachian Mountains. Your video is great and very informative. I just need a reputable travel company to help me plan a UK trip.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

You should come! I offer private tours and trip planning advice. Get in touch

[@bobgreenwood1066]

That was awesome. Very well done. Thank you 😊

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mikeg3293]

New subscriber here. What a fabulously interesting video, one of the best I’ve seen for many years. I was engrossed and love to hear your knowledge and passion of your subject. More please!

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@denislacombe4103]

Hi! I'm French i went in London several times! I love this town! But i" ve never visited High Gate Cemetery, i love your video, and the way you explain things, this Cemetery looks like Le Pere la Chaise Cemetery in Paris! Old head stones, old vaults as well, Jim Morrison from.the famous American band the Doors, is buried in Le Pere la Chaise, and i know that in High Gate Cemetery, Karl Marx is buried there! Among of course many others celebrities! Anyway next time i go to London, i promise i'll visit High Gate Cemetery! Because of you! Thank you very much , once again, stay safe, God Bless! Denis from France...

[@janicestewart8291]

Thank you for taking the time to show this magnificent cemetery. I'm in the U.S. and know I'll never get to see that in person. I love that you were able to show Dickens Family area. I read where Charles wanted to be buried at his home, "Gads Hill" but they instead, placed him in Westminster Abby

[@TheMuseumGuide]

I didn't realise!

[@Bruce-1956]

I visited it many a time in the 60s and 70s when I visited my grandmother in Croftdown Road.

[@zonyacak4128]

Thank you for showing this beautiful cemetery. I love cemeteries. In fact i live near one beautiful cemetery called Campo Santo. Greetings from Belgium.

[@TheMuseumGuide]

Thank you for watching!

[@A-1622.]

This is a very beautiful graveyard.