hi guys welcome to another dead good walk today we're in a rather rainy highgate cemetery in
london i'm not sure how the footage will turn out today but hopefully you'll be all right
it's my first time here i've been wanting to come here for about 10 years now
as well as the other magnificent seven cemeteries or the other six even
um just gonna have a little walk around not really gonna try and look for any famous graves
just gonna try and enjoy the architecture and the ambience and um yeah see how it goes
so this is called the egyptian avenue and it was uh it's a bit of a sales gimmick
because a lot of the victorians liked um ancient egypt and were inspired by
uh napoleon's campaigns and the arrival of the is that a stone in london
they did used to be a roof on here as well but they took it off because
people didn't like that it was too dark but now the trees have grown over again anyway
so the egyptian avenue brings you to the circle of lebanon and it gets its name from an ancient cedar
of lebanon tree which used to be at the top in the middle of the round part but they think they
took it down in 2019 because it was at risk of collapse and probably gonna damage the two below
so the inner ring of vaults was actually sold out about two months before the cemetery opened
and then i think it was a few years later the
they built the outer rings as well because demand was so popular
uh
so that's all the way around now looking back down the egyptian avenue
so this is the entrance to the vault underneath the beer mausoleum julius
beer um i think they'll lock it because i called this like to come in here for some reason and
do the rituals and this is the beer mausoleum that's above that vault
you can actually see a coughing through that little crack there
but i don't think the camera can pick it up
oh look at that
lovely memory of mary
look at this tree taking over
so if you know anything about the story of the highgate vampire this is where david faran
claimed he saw the vampire one night behind me at the gates that he was looking through
which is a different entrance onto swain's lane to the cemetery um it's an interesting
story if you look into it the the locals were so convinced they broke into the cemetery and started
ripping coffins open and staking them through the chest to try and get rid of the vampire
someone says
wow
well the bells are ringing so that means it's time to go
hope you enjoyed this one guys and i'll see you on the next one