{"id":81,"date":"2008-08-25T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zogspat.tk\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-08-30T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T13:14:49","slug":"trip-to-highgate-cemetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Highgate Cemetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a fantastic afternoon going around Highgate [and Hampstead] today [bank holiday]. We took the paid tour around the west graveyard, a first for both my wife and myself [who&#8217;ve clocked up about 15 years of London living and working between us]. If you are ever in town, do it: It is fascinating. Learn about Victorian Londoners in the 1860s too poor to bury an elderly relative, whom they propped up in the corner of a house with <strong>60<\/strong> people living in it. They had this poor dead bloke in the living room for a fruity 8 weeks over the summer. Yum.<\/p>\n<p>I was gutted as in the preamble, the spry lady who introduced the tour guide said, &#8216;no big cameras&#8217;. I asked her again on the way in and she said something along the lines of &#8216;be discreet, and sensitive to the fact that it&#8217;s an actively used graveyard.&#8217; There are 180,000 people buried in both sections. This came out quite nicely:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sleepy_angel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82\" title=\"sleepy_angel\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sleepy_angel-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sleepy_angel-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sleepy_angel.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>though I ended up being pretty rapid, snatching photos with my 10-22mm. On the east side, where you have to take a photo of this:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/big_head2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104\" title=\"big_head2\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/big_head2-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/big_head2-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/big_head2.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[I&#8217;ll come back to this. The cropping is annoying: I can&#8217;t keep all of the text with the Big Man&#8217;s head in the right part of the image.] But I think this really says it all:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dead1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"dead1\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dead1-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dead1-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dead1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a couple more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/unsafe3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-112\" title=\"unsafe3\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/unsafe3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/nosy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-113\" title=\"nosy1\" src=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/nosy1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a fantastic afternoon going around Highgate [and Hampstead] today [bank holiday]. We took the paid tour around the west graveyard, a first for both my wife and myself [who&#8217;ve clocked up about 15 years of London living and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/?p=81\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-plot.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}