Highgate Cemetery West

Being probably the most famous cemetery in I had to visit Highgate. The cemetery is split in to two halves, East and West. In the East side you can wander alone but in the West you are only permitted to enter if taking part in a tour, which lasts approximately an hour but you could easily spend a full day wandering this half alone. The pace of the tour does not really allow much time for quality photographs but what I managed to capture the best will be shown in the next few post. Below I have included a few interesting things that I spotted that would not fill an entire post to themselves.



What is described as the most talked about grave in Highgate is pictured below, it is the oldest grave in highgate cemetery, the deceased was 36 when she died, one year older than the average death age. Also spotted was this example of a death mask. A death mask is an actual mold of the deceased face that is then turned into a mask and put upon a memorial statue. This creates a copy of the deceased faces on their memorial. This tecnique was also used at Highgate in the tomb of Julias Beer, which is the cemetery's highest point. In this tomb a child, with the face of his deceased daughter, is being carried off to heaven by an angel. It is prohibited to photograph inside of the tomb but I'd recomend visiting the cemetery to see it.