hello and welcome to a sunny a very sunny London we're gonna do something a
bit different today instead of the main sights like Buckingham Palace the houses of
Parliament all those we're looking at the more unusual sights this morning at
the Brompton cemetery it was one of the large Victorian cemeteries that surround
the centre of London I think this was built in 1850 so let's wander around and
take a look there's meant to be quite unusual tombs and gravestones, catacombs and
one's meant to be a Victorian time machine so I don't know how true that is
and this is Emmeline Pankhurst's grave so quite appropriate because it's the hundredth anniversary of votes for women
well if you didn't know Evelyn Pankurst she is the leader of the suffragettes quite
appropriate because hundred years since women got the vote you can see the
flowers and over here is the grave of Sotheby from the famous auctioneers
Sotheby's somewhere here is Cunard the name behind the famous
shipping company let's see if we can find that one finally found it this is
the Cunard grave we're now heading over to the grave of Brian Glover the
actor you may remember him he was in Porridge Alien 3 American
Werewolf in London he was in good in that you know he's a a Yorkshire bald
head bloke so it's over here somewhere
this bizarre tomb is meant to be some Victorian strange time-traveling device
like a TARDIS from Doctor Who it's got like Egyptian hieroglyphs
around it and a pyramid on the roof or maybe not be a TARDIS a transportation
device it's got these weird doors on it and there was a key but apparently the
keys been lost so now I'm getting close let's see if we can get in, wait a
minute is it open
I've just been back to 1666 the Fire of London well a bit long you obviously
have to be careful at night because at night the dead rise and they'll grab you
by your ankles and drag you down into the earth feast on your brains
or maybe not there's some old world war 1 graves here as well if you can't see
it you can maybe you can make up a picture like sub-lieutenant Reginald
Alexander John Warneford killed in 1915 shooting down a Zeppelin near Ghent
so that was Brompton cemetery if you're in London definitely try and come down
it's really easy to get to from central London and look how peaceful it is it's
half past one and there's not many here and just a few joggers, really nice day
benches, paths, great to spend an hour or two here.