Did you enjoy this video? Keep things spooky and watch the Most Macabre Things in London's Churches next. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYqfyLSqfpe3o5M.html

@ShikiraPressley

Жыл бұрын

I live just outside of brookwood and always hear the non-operational trains at certain times in the night. In addition the cemetery in brooklands is hugely famous for high profile figures in history including Freddy mercury.

@NailHeavenAshford

6 ай бұрын

I’m afraid it can’t be Freddie Mercury’s grandparents buried there is that is what you are referring to. Bomi was born in 1908 Jer was born in 1928. The people buried there, who just happen to have the same surname, were born in 1931 and 1928. This means that to be Bomis parents one would have to be minus ten years old and the other minus thirteen years old. To be Jer’s parents one would have to be three years old and the other a new baby. People are clutching at straws because the surname is the same. The extended family were left abroad as far as I know but there’s no way in earth that can be his grandparents on either side.

Loving these historical deep dives! KZread channels like yours have replaced both the long-form articles we used to read and underfunded but sorely needed local television.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason. Next stop - public access television.

A whole railway dedicated just to ferry the dead...Charon would be jealous.

@TheMuseumGuide

11 ай бұрын

Very true! Thanks for watching.

@virginiawolfe2581

7 ай бұрын

Think he'd ask for a promotion?

@ritakarl9958

2 ай бұрын

A very good episode!

@swedhgemoni8092

2 ай бұрын

@@virginiawolfe2581 He should!

@swedhgemoni8092

2 ай бұрын

@@ritakarl9958 Indeed ☺

I was born overlooking Brompton Cemetery and it’s given me and my friends plenty of lovely time in it’s beautiful tranquil setting. And has “wooden cobble stones” in the front of it. A truly lovely place. Many thanks for your great video.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Growing up in a Virginian suburb outside of Washington DC the only places that were quiet were cemeteries I fell in love with the architecture and Tombstone creativity. I'm glad you got to see some of that beauty.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I love visiting cemeteries - such wonderful museums of the past!

Another great video for spooky season. I knew about the London Necropolis Railway from a late-night Wikipedia binge, but had no idea their station was still standing, or about that insane death-pyramid idea. Their logo is about the most metal thing ever, and I'd pay good money to own a T-shirt of it. I know 2 tidbits of extra information about the London Necropolis Company- 1) some of the big trees at Brookwood are Giant Sequoias, the biggest trees in the world (although they're currently just babies). This is because there was a mania for them in the mid-19th century after they were 'discovered' by prospectors during the 1849 Gold Rush. 2) At some point the London Necropolis Company also owned double-decker buses, complete with space for the deceased and their coffin! I've actually rode on one, as some of them were bought up by tour companies for ghost tours. The one I rode on was in York, and I think they said it had previously been used in Edinburgh.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes - I did read that they were Giant Redwoods! As for the bus you took, this seems to be a cheeky little fib on behalf of the Necrobus. I can't find any historical record of the Cemetery using buses (they did use trucks) but I will keep looking and let you know!

@chrisball3778

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Yeah, you're obviously right that a ghost tour would be motivated to boost their ghoul credentials. It still seems a weird lie to tell, though- why would the York tour guides say it was a London Necropolis Company bus, that they'd inherited from their sister company in Edinburgh? None of that really contributed to any of the supernatural silliness they were promoting, which was all centred on local landmarks. IDK- maybe the Edinburgh Necrobus tour bought the buses off of a London ghost tour and just recycled the nonsense, before handing it on to the York folks? Cheers anyway- always fun and informative videos- look forward to the next.

One of my favorite bands is named for Abney Park cemetery . Kind of fitting for a steampunk band.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

It’s perfect. 🙌🏻

Thank you, this was so interesting! I take the train past, and drive through, the cemetery all the time, but have never gone to visit - I’m going to have to make an effort to go.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

That fills me with such happiness! Always glad to inspire a spooky cemetery visit.

I was surprised to hear about John Singer Sargent being buried there! Somehow I expected him to have a grand plot in the best cemetery!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

This was considered quite a 'good' cemetery, but I expected a grander monument, you're right!

I'd love a tour of high gate cemetery! Loving the videos btw. I'm finding these tours so interesting!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Noted! I will do one this summer, when it is at its prettiest. :)

@lisawatts

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide amazing! I'll look forward to watching ☺️

I just discovered your channel. I found it fascinating and educational. I love history and find cemetries and graveyards a good place to start when researching someone or event. Thank you for this awesome video.

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Happy to have you here. :)

I LOVE your channel!!! Please don't stop making these wonderful videos 🙏🙏🙏 Genuinely brilliant 🙌

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! I plan to keep making many, many more.

Love love love this video. Could you do some thing on The Cult of death with Pre-Raphaelite‘s and/or Victorian Gothic renaissance?

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! You're after my own heart.

Nothing like a spot of mourning and a round of golf!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

This always make me laugh.

Thank you for this video! I've come across the London Necropolis Train a couple of times in my studies, but this has been the most thorough overview I've seen.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! This is one of my favourite topics, so I hope I did it justice.

I’ve been in London for 11 years and I’m amazed by how much I have left to explore! (Amazed and excited!!)

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it just amazing? I have been here a decade and constantly learn new things that make my head spin.

I have visited the Brookwod Commonwealth Military Cemetery. It is very beautifully maintained.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I really want to go there, because I know there are a lot of Canadian graves and an annual Canada Day service. This is very close to my mother-in-law’s house, so I plan to go very soon.

Love your videos. Could we have a tour of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula and the funeral effigies at Westminster Abbey please? Maybe museums in Wales too, that would be fascinating.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Absolutely to Church of St Peter ad Vincula, but sadly, filming is strictly prohibited in Westminster Abbey, and they will have any KZread videos taken down. But I will cover it in a different way!

we have a similar thing here in australia, i know sydney had a railway stop through a cemetery for funerary purposes. and the train station was this gorgeous kinda gothic/neoclassical style. when they stopped using it, it was dismantled brick by brick and reassembled as a church not far from where i live, in ainslie canberra for anybody who wants to google it. i've never been to this old cemetery but on google maps it looks HUGE i believe there may've been more than one 'train station' there at some stage. all that remains now is the buried tracks and a little bit of the old supporting infrastructure.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I definitely need to visit this church!

Sydney had a necropolis railway which ran from a dedicated station the Sydney CBD to Rockwood (yes, Rookwood). Rockwood is the biggest cemetery in the southern hemisphere. The mortuary station from Rookwood was in danger of total collapse when it was bought by a church in Canberra and carefully dismantled, transported and rebuilt in Canberra. Thank you for your videos.

@TheMuseumGuide

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I’ve heard of this! I’d love to visit.

We had a similar service here in Australia for many years The funeral train would leave Central Station from the Mortuary Platform and travel out to Rookwood Necropolis which is the largest still in use cemetery in Australia

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I definitely need to visit.

My grandfather was a carriage builder at Enfield in Sydney, I still have his drawings of the coffin carriages used from Sydney Central to Rookwood Cemetery. They range from 4 wheel wagons for 3rd class to more luxurious bogie wagons for the better off. As far as I know the building is still at Central and the Rookwood building? now a church in Canberra. Great video 👍

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

That is fascinating- what a cool piece of history to own! Thanks for watching.

Jessica, thanks for this great video! So much with the weirdness of the Victorians!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

They were SO BIZARRE.

I'd love to see a tour of Nunhead Cemetery and it's chapel and crypt. Though access is tricky i've heard. I love you channel. As a fellow Vancouverite, Tour Guide, Historian AND Anglophile, you are living my dream. Thanks for the vids! I look forward to your future adventures.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephanie! I plan to do detailed tours of all seven of the Magnificent Seven, but first, I have a tour coming up soon of London's Strangest Graveyards. :) It will be up in about a month!

Excellent video, fascinating 🙏

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Colin!

Have you been to Hayworth? My parents went to the Bronte parsonage and went through the graveyard ..and there was a little path with a little gate and when they walked out the weather immediately shifted darker and cold -and they felt the presence of a ghost, maybe Charlotte. They turned back and went through the gate and it was suddenly sunny. They tell it better. Thanks for your great show.

Awesome video Jessica, thank you.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really love the topic.

Well I'll say I've watched dozens and dozens of movies, videos, documentaries, paranormal shows for so many years and this is the first time I've ever heard of the Nacropolis train. And I really enjoyed the information you've just told everyone in this video. Very interesting I must say. Thank you for sharing. Btw, I am new to your videos and this is just my second one, but I loved this one just as much as the first one I saw last week. ❤❤❤

I love the work you are doing the history is very intense your presentation is awesome

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Enjoyed the video so much!! Great job indeed😊

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

I live in Toronto, Canada. It fascinates me to hear this history and to realize that events here (a former British colony), where identical to events back in England. Yet our churchyards were young and nowhere near as overused as those of Europe when we relocated our dead to the outskirts of town in the 1850s. I imagine it must have become a policy throughout the British Empire. I have heard references to the "cemetery garden movement". It would seem this was both a cultural and a physical "movement".

My new favorite Channel! I’m a fan of spooky and macabre history, and I now have a few cool things on London Bucket list thanks to Jessica. ☠️ 🇬🇧

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Kelly!

Just discovered you ,and I love your tours! Thank you!

@TheMuseumGuide

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Thank you for this wonderfully educational tour AND telling us where JS Sargent is buried. Had wondered about that for many years.

Thanks for this great video, I’ve watched all your videos. I’ve always loved museums and it feels like I’m with you there. I hope you’ll make many more.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy you're enjoying them! Thank you for watching.

Really interesting episode thanks 😀

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

Oh my days! I love your accent and the passion you have for history.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you! I never get compliments on my accent! Only critique. ;)

This is the third episode of yours I have watched. You are amazing, young lady!!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you- we loved this. The depth of your research is amazing. New to your videos we are going to be busy watching all of your library.❤

@TheMuseumGuide

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love this topic, so I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)

I remember from my childhood seeing a similar station in Sydney Australia. Not far from Central station. The train ran from there to the west to Lidcombe. I think the cemetery there was called Rookwood cemetery. It was a common saying amongst older people if they felt ery unwell that they were, "as crook (sick) as Rookwood".

This was great thank you

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

Loving your channel, would you ever consider doing a video on a couple of the 7 cemeteries? I would love to visit Highgate.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I will visit this Spring or Summer! Such a wonderful place - I used to lead tours there.

Yes,we would really like to see more of the Horniman Museum. Great program, only discovered it today - thank you from Australia

@TheMuseumGuide

7 ай бұрын

I will have to go in the new year. Thanks for watching!

Thank you for sharing, I love England and all it’s history, my children were fascinated by cemetery, this is very sad and interesting ❤

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome!

Am really enjoying your channel!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Thanks for being here.

Again, new to your channel.....I've watched almost all your videos today......its a great video series you have built. :edit: just because of where your wedding photos were taken........ Awe.........

@TheMuseumGuide

2 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome!

I'm currently working on transcribing the Brookwood Cemetery Register of Private Graves 1852-1900 (shrugs). Otherwise, one of the most interesting burials I have found so far is for a burial on 16 February 1858, of a person described as 'A Man of Colour. Name Unknown.' I am sure a lot of people think that the use of the phrase 'person of colour' is quite recent, so this burial from 1858 was quite a find. Fun fact 1: I am not sure exactly how many 'greats' it involves, but a great uncle of actor Benedict Cumberbatch was interred at Brookwood on 24 August 1889. Fun fact 2: the wife of the captain of the Titanic was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, following her death in a road accident in London. Fun fact 3: Freddy Mercury's parents are buried at Brookwood. It is also the case that, certainly up to 1900, a large number of burials were of infants and children.

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

That sounds fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

Very fun video. I do enjoy the historic spooky.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I do as well!

As a resident of the Sydney, NSW, Australia, suburb of Lidcombe, I am within a very easy walk of the largest Cemetery of its type in the southern hemisphere. Its name is "Rookwood" officially the Rookwood Necropolis. There are the remains of a mortuary station at Rookwood, and the originating Station just outside of the Sydney Central Station remains in being though no longer used. There is the similarity in name and in the fact that there was once a train service between Sydney and Rookwood. When Rookwood was initiated it was out in the country side but now is literally in the centre of the Sydney suburban sprawl. It is truly the dead centre of Sydney.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I've had many comments about this - I need to visit Sydney again, clearly!

Sydney Australia had one too. You can still see both ends of the line.

Very interesting work

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

love that ghost train picture

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

I found this fascinating. I must visit this place sometime. It seems macabre, but it was a practical solution to a very real problem. A real slice of social history, which is my pet subject. Thank you for showing this.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Macabre is never an insult around here!

@christophertaylor7341

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Many thanks for sharing the video. I found it interesting and informative. My use of the word ‘macabre ‘ was never intended as an insult. On the contrary, it was a unique idea and offered a great deal of dignity to the departed as opposed to what might have happened to them in the city. It even gave a measure of dignity to some who were executed, Styllou Christofi and Edith Thompson, (who, I believe, should never have been hanged), to name two. Thank you again

awwww, what a beautiful place for the photos

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I think so too. :)

Great video

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Many years ago as a student nurse I had a secondment in Brookwood Psychiatric hospital. The staff told me about how the deceased royal family would be transported on the train that passed near the hospital.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I don't know of any royals in Brookwood, but this would be fascinating!

Cemeteries are peaceful places, and as someone once said, "the dead can't hurt you, its the living you have to watch out for"

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

Too true!

Just found you, awesome!

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

I’m glad you’re here!

The similarly named Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia - one if the largest graveyards in the world - also had a rail line, operating until 1948.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

That is fascinating! I need to learn more.

@ozwogman

Жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_Street_railway_station

I watched a lot of cemetery KZread the American ones are magnificent

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I should watch some! What do you recommend?

Should you find yourself back in the US, you really must visit the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. To say that it is a collection of medical curiosities is a distinct understatement.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

It's on my very, very shortlist! I hope to visit this coming fall. I can't wait!

great video I'm interested as Sydney had a funeral train that went from Sydney to a large cemetery little bit out of Sydney called Rookwood the mortuary line ceased in 1946 the main mortuary station still stands in Sydney the mortuary stations that were at Rookwood are all now long gone

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s so cool! I can’t wait to come and check it out next time I’m in Sydney.

My great grandmother is buried in Brookwood, as is Capt Smith’s (Titanic) widow is also interred there….

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

I didn’t know that! Fascinating.

Well, I did not know that. I was brought up in Surrey. WOW

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

So was my husband!

@andrewjohnson388

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, Yes, I miss London. When it is your heart ..It does not go. Really good content you do...Thanks.

Brookwood does corpse farming? So many strange things tied up in the rituals of death!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

If you think about it, even most of the things we visit in Museums are grave goods and death rituals! Fascinating.

@vilstef6988

Жыл бұрын

@The Museum Guide. Much of what we know of history and ancient culture comes from research of funerary practices. Fascinating indeed!

All ways know about this as Woking is my home town its a beautiful cemetery

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

It’s stunning.

Went there when I was 16 with some mates saw a ghost it was sunset and two victorian lady's where walking down a path and yes we where scaird witless and legged it that was 44 years ago still gives me the creeps now

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You’ll never forget it! That sounds terrifying.

I think the residents of that city of the dead probably appreciate having someone visit, let alone someone who is so well-versed in the history of the place.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I hope so too. Thanks Rox!

Cooool place

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

It really is!

How sad that that Line has been destroyed.

@TheMuseumGuide

4 ай бұрын

Agree!

Through London's streets, where shadows creep, Lies a tale of sorrow, dark and deep. Guided by Jessica, the museum's guide, We delve into history's chilling tide. In days of old, when death held sway, Graveyards teemed, with decay. Pyramids of death, reaching the sky, Taller than the Shard, where spirits lie. Enon Chapel, where the dead did sway, Dancing on graves, in a grim ballet. Cholera's grip, a deadly embrace, Spreading fear, across the city's face. Amidst this gloom, a railway arose, London Necropolis, where darkness flows. Carrying corpses, on their final ride, To Brookwood's fields, where souls reside. Brookwood Cemetery, vast and vast, A silent kingdom, of the past. 121 Westminster Bridge Road, now serene, Hides its history, of grim routine. But beneath the surface, shadows linger, Whispers of death, a chilling singer. In the London Necropolis Railway's trail, Lies the grim history, of a city's veil.

Although that was super interesting it was also super creepy

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Was it the corpse bugs? 😂

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Was it the corpse bugs? 😂

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Was it the corpse bugs? 😂

That group of trees that had the lone grave 🪦 marker what was the story behind it and WHY was it by itself

If I ever see golfers carrying flowers....😮😂

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

13:32 I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts.

Over time the proposed "Pyramid " could only have become a fire trap ; perhaps not really a good idea. It would have smelt like one big Sunday roast ... ?

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

What a horrible visual! 🤣 I like your style.

@thoughtengine

6 ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide And the Americans would have decided to demolish it during the war...

Who’s was the lone grave surrounded by tge trees in Brooke wood cemetery 😱

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I don’t know, but it was so eerie!

In rural Australia if you died away from where you'd be buried they would put you on the train a normal passenger train

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Unreal! Such a bizarre history.

Enon Chapel opened in NINETEEN twenty two? I think you mean 1822 or 1722.

@TheMuseumGuide

5 ай бұрын

Must have been a slip of the tongue!

Sargent was my favorite artist and I never knew where he was buried.

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

There’s currently a Sargent exhibition at the Tate Britain!

Hand wringing: Victorian pearl clutching.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!

2:34 Dude on the left looks like Tim Curry

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Perfect for Hallowe’en

@richierich8334

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide 🤡

Wealthy people were often buried in the crypts below the churches, then they would decay and smell would rise in to the church….hence the term…’The Stinking Rich’….!!

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

I think that’s an urban myth, but it’s a great one!

3 classes of passengers, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Don't you mean 4 classes? 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and dead.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, the dead themselves were also split into the 3 classes!

I can't help but wonder, who did the bombing? Take care.

@TheMuseumGuide

7 күн бұрын

It was the Nazi Luftwaffe during World War II

No doubt a slip of the tongue but at 1'14" she refers to Woking as being to the south east of London . Wrong! It's to the south west.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

Good catch! My husband is from Farnborough, so I should know better!

@davidmorris950

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide I live in Godalming and used to work at Waterloo. Loved the video. Really interesting.

WOW 😲 what a real Christian 😡

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I know! Such a terrible attitude, and all too common those days (and even now).

Taking your loved ones by train to a cemetery 25 miles outside of London , stop making a beautiful thing like taking your love ones by train to rest in peace , sound horrible ,

@TheMuseumGuide

Ай бұрын

I don’t think I made it sound horrible?

Did the bishop acknowledge that any class of Christian is welcome in Heaven?

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

You’d hope so!

The English do love to separate the classes

@TheMuseumGuide

15 күн бұрын

Too true!

I'd call the Victorians wildly weird!

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

So bizarre!

You don’t know how to say Pre Raphaelites.

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

Clearly I don’t 🤣

Love this channel, very entertaining and informative content. I did not realise I was romantic until I cried seeing you getting married, I am soppy 😀

@TheMuseumGuide

6 ай бұрын

Awwww! 🤣

The Victorian Railways in Australia had an almost identical service from Melbourne to Fawkner Necropolis. The rail line is still operating.

@TheMuseumGuide

Жыл бұрын

I need to look into this - a few people have commented this now!

@thoughtengine

6 ай бұрын

@@TheMuseumGuide Springvale... Woronora... Newcastle. I keep thinking it would make sense that a certain one in Cairns was rail-served; given that it is right beside the Cairns-Forsayth line - but, not enough evidence. Maybe Cheltenham, since it's right over the station driveway from Cheltenham Station?