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The West Cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, London

Feb. 2017

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Highgate Cemetery, Travel Photography

New flower and travel photography prints are available at my Etsy Store. Some are from my recent trip to Ireland, Wales, and England. Others are from my ongoing adventures around the Twin Cities. Highgate Cemetery in London is a Victorian cemetery in one of the northern burrows. Worth seeing if you happen to be in London visiting.

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Sleeping angel at the Highgate Cemetery, United Kingdom

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Our new Modernism Beyond Metro-Land guidebook features many architects, working in a variety of styles and materials. Walter Segal’s work is unique among them for its focus on self building and use of timber. The borough of Lewisham was the first place to embrace his ideas, which have subsequently spread around the suburbs and beyond. 

After a number of years designing small projects such as houses, flats and offices, largely in brick, Segal began to explore timber construction with a temporary annexe whilst his house in Highgate was being rebuilt, devising a self build system using widely available and low cost materials, in standard units. He saw how anybody could use the system to construct their own homes, and via the anarchist writer and architect Colin Ward, found a sympathetic reception at Lewisham Borough Council. They eventually allowed him some land to start building in Forest Hill, constructing 7 homes in what would be named Segal Close.

Other houses were built in Ormanton Road and Longton Avenue, Sydenham and Elstree Hill, Ravensbourne, all using the Segal method and producing houses built with timber frames and infill panels. Another plot of land was given over for self building in Honor Oak Park, where 13 two-storey timber houses were completed in 1986, and the street named Walter’s Way. 

The borough’s own architects department also took inspiration from Segal's ideas, with the scheme at Brockley Park, next to Segal Close, designed by Geoffrey Wigfall, using mono pitched homes built in brick and finished with timber cladding and grass roofs. Some of the houses feature “pods” at the front, to be used for extra living or storage space, and the estate is grouped around a large green space. 

Segal passed away in 1985 but his ideas persisted with self build projects appearing all around the capital's suburbs, with collaborator Jon Broome continuing the philosophy with his own practice Architype. Self-built projects can be found at Headway Gardens in Walthamstow, Parish Gardens in Greenwich, Eridge Green Close in Bromley and opposite Segal Close in Brockley Park, as well as at many other sites around the suburbs. Walter Segal’s self-build houses will have an extended section in our Modernism Beyond Metroland guidebook, now at 94% of its crowdfunding total. Get your copy here https://unbound.com/books/modernism-beyond-metro-land/

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Highgate House is a minimal residence located in London, United Kingdom, designed by Emil Eve Architects. This architectural intervention enhances the house’s verticality and natural light, creating a fluid connection between the home’s various levels. The renovation’s primary goal was to convert the previously segmented and somewhat cumbersome layout into an open, cohesive family space

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Dare To Explore Cursed Cemeteries Around the World

Cemeteries have long been associated with eerie tales and supernatural occurrences. Some graveyards are infamous for their haunted reputations, drawing visitors intrigued by the legends of restless spirits and cursed tombs. Here are some of the most notable cursed cemeteries from around the globe.

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is perhaps the most famous cemetery in the United States, known for its unique above-ground tombs and rich history. It is rumored to be haunted by the spirits of former slaves and voodoo practitioners. Visitors frequently report strange noises, sudden temperature drops, and even sightings of apparitions, contributing to its reputation as a cursed location.

Highgate Cemetery – London, England Highgate Cemetery is renowned for its stunning Gothic architecture and historical significance. It has become a hotspot for ghost hunters, with reports of a spectral figure known as the "Highgate Vampire." This entity is said to cause unexplained animal deaths and has been linked to a pervasive sense of dread felt by many visitors. The cemetery's dark atmosphere and numerous ghost sightings solidify its status as a cursed site.

Greyfriars Kirkyard – Edinburgh, Scotland This historic cemetery dates back to the 16th century and is famous for its association with the loyal dog Bobby, who reportedly guarded his owner's grave for 14 years. While Bobby's ghost may not seem frightening, many visitors have reported feelings of unease and sightings of other unusual apparitions within the kirkyard. The cemetery's somber history adds to its haunted reputation.

Resurrection Cemetery – Chicago, Illinois, USA

Resurrection Cemetery is known for the legend of "Resurrection Mary," a ghostly figure believed to be a young woman in a white dress who hitchhikes along Archer Avenue. The story goes that she died in a car accident after leaving a dance at the nearby O’Henry Ballroom. Many drivers have claimed to pick her up only for her to vanish from their backseat.

La Recoleta Cemetery – Buenos Aires, Argentina La Recoleta Cemetery is famous for its elaborate mausoleums and statues but is also rumored to be haunted by the spirits of Buenos Aires' former citizens. Visitors have reported seeing apparitions and hearing strange noises throughout the cemetery. The haunting beauty of this site contrasts sharply with its eerie reputation.

Père Lachaise Cemetery – Paris, France Home to many famous figures, including Jim Morrison and Victor Noir, Père Lachaise Cemetery is steeped in history and legend. The spirit of Victor Noir is particularly noted; his statue attracts visitors who believe it brings luck or misfortune depending on how they interact with it. The cemetery's rich tapestry of stories contributes to its haunted allure.

Howard Street Cemetery – Salem, Massachusetts, USA Notable for its connection to the Salem Witch Trials, Howard Street Cemetery is said to be haunted by the spirits of those wrongfully accused and executed for witchcraft. Visitors often report feelings of anxiety and strange sounds echoing through the graveyard. Its dark history makes it a chilling location for those interested in the supernatural.

These cemeteries serve as reminders of our fascination with death and the stories that linger long after life has ended. Whether rooted in folklore or personal experiences, their haunted reputations continue to captivate those brave enough to explore them.

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Award Winning, Victorian Terraced Townhouse in Highgate, London by LLI Design @llidesign. Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Richard Gooding @richardgoodingphotography. LLI Design recently completed a total redesign and refurbishment of a 5 storey, period terraced townhouse in Highgate, North London. LLI Design’s work was commended with an award in the Residential Interior Private Residence London category, of the United Kingdom Property Awards in association with Rolls Royce. The award’s judging panel was chaired by Lord Caithness, Lord Best, and Lord Waverley, members of the House of Lords in the UK Parliament… #uk #london #england #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cns9XlPM2mZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Not all social housing in the 1960s was about tower blocks. High-rise buildings were unpopular with tenants, lifts were costly and broke down, and the surrounding lawns were hard to maintain. Moreover, on the slopes around Hampstead Heath in London, towers would have blocked views towards St Paul’s Cathedral. This area became part of the newly created borough of Camden in 1965 and a visionary new chief architect, Sydney Cook, assembled a bright team of assistants to find an alternative form of housing. One of these young architects was Peter Tábori, who has died aged 83. The Whittington estate which he designed, originally known as Highgate New Town, exemplified a solution that was both innovative and successful.

Camden had identified an area of semi-derelict Victorian housing for redevelopment next to Highgate’s east cemetery, where Karl Marx is buried. Tábori realised that, on such a steep hillside, lines of flats and maisonettes could be stacked one above the other and entered from a common entrance at mid-level on the uphill side. Car parking could be set into the hill between these terraces and decked over with pedestrian walkways and children’s playgrounds.

He was inspired by medieval Italian hill towns and an internationally regarded scheme near Berne by the Swiss architects Atelier 5, but the greatest impression is of generous, humane spaces. The scheme was designed in 1968-70 but not completed until 1979 after the original contractors went bust.

The concept fitted perfectly with Cook’s own ideas and Tábori was a natural addition to the team. Other assistants working on similar solutions went on to greater recognition: Neave Brown’s complex terraces at Fleet Road (now Dunboyne Road) and Alexandra Road are listed, as are Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth’s mainly two-storey houses on a steep slope at Branch Hill, Hampstead.

Together the group established a distinctive style for Camden’s best social housing using crisp white concrete, densely packed but relatively low-rise. Tábori’s Highgate New Town had the benefit of simplicity, in the design of the terraces and in his determination that public and private spaces should be clearly separated. This last avoided the problems faced by estates where indeterminate space led to vandalism. Mark Swenarton’s book Cook’s Camden (2017), to which Tábori generously contributed, records the inspiring story.

Highgate New Town was finely finished, the external concrete contrasting with handsome internal joinery. Cook claimed that “the quality of [Tábori’s] work isn’t just double site capacity at low rise, or all the higher standards, but that he did it all below yardstick”, the restrictive budget code imposed by governments at the time. In fact, Camden’s fine housing was made possible by its high domestic rates income and other London boroughs could not match its quality. Many of Tábori’s maisonettes remain tenanted, but those sold under “right-to-buy” legislation now fetch eye-watering prices.

Tábori went on to design a second scheme in 1971, Oakshott Court, Polygon Road, with three L-shaped terraces, but he was disappointed by a decision made in 1974 to use brick, apparently in deference to its location near St Pancras Station. A smaller scheme of 15 flats on the corner of Mill Lane and Solent Road followed in 1973 after Cook’s retirement, including four wheelchair-accessible units and five for elderly people. He also worked on a visionary programme with the architects/engineers Arup Associates for building over the main railway tracks that run through Camden, an attempt to gain space in the overcrowded borough.

He was born Peter Stroh in Budapest, the son of Istvan Stroh, a professor of mathematics, and his wife Erzsebét (nee Szanto), a former opera singer. She subsequently married Michael Tábori, an economist whose father had died at Auschwitz. Both men had been imprisoned by the communist government and following the 1956 uprising in Budapest, Peter too was arrested. On his release in December 1956 he, Erzsebét and Michael emigrated to London via Vienna, along with other members of Michael’s family. Thenceforth Tábori used his stepfather’s surname and adopted it formally on becoming a British citizen in 1966.

Tábori learned English and technical drawing with an architect, Cecil Epril, and in 1958 entered Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster). His tutors included Richard Rogers, who inspired his interest in mass housing, and who himself designed an (unbuilt) hillside scheme in Croydon inspired by Atelier 5. Tábori assisted on Rogers’s first built house, Creekvean, with Su Rogers and Norman Foster.

Tábori also spent two years working for Ernö Goldfinger, the Hungarian-born architect immortalised by Ian Fleming, before completing his qualifications. The final external examiner was Denys Lasdun, who gave him a job assisting on the University of East Anglia, another hillside building with a stepped section where he learned about concrete techniques. However, when in 1967 the chance came to work for Cook and develop his own housing interests, Tábori seized the opportunity.

He left the borough in 1984 and formed a private practice with John Green and Bob Winning, working mainly in Hamburg, Toulouse and Soweto.

Tábori married Angelika Schiel, a model, in 1962. They had three sons, Kris, Michael and Gabor, but divorced in about 1980, and Angelika, who became an upholsterer, died in 2016. Peter had a fourth son, Tom, in 1984, with Anne Saville, a welfare adviser at the charity Gingerbread, but the couple later separated. He is survived by his sons.

🔔 Peter Tábori (Peter Stroh), architect, born 15 January 1940; died 23 February 2023

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Ruth Sheen and Phil Davis in High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988)

Cast: Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Heather Tobias, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville, David Bamber, Jason Watkins. Screenplay: Mike Leigh. Cinematography: Roger Pratt. Production design: Diana Charnley. Music: Andrew Dickson.

Mike Leigh's excoriating satire of Thatcherite Britain, High Hopes, ranges from shrill to droll, from gratingly silly to quietly touching. A film like it from any other director might have been said to be out of control, but as usual Leigh knows exactly what he's doing, and he does it brilliantly if annoyingly. Annoyance is, in fact, part of the process: If we object that his characters are unreal, over the top, his response would have to be yes, but you know who they are, don't you? And we do, from the shabby socialists, Cyril (Phil Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), to the working-class strivers who can't rise above their bad taste, Valerie (Heather Tobias) and Martin (Philip Jackson), to the parvenu Tories, Laetitia (Lesley Manville) and Rupert (David Bamb er). We've all seen their likes, even in the United States -- perhaps they became even more noticeable in Trumpian America. Fortunately, Leigh knows to ground his satire in people we can sympathize with, namely, Cyril and Shirley. They are menial cogs in the capitalist machine, he's a motorcycle courier, she works for a landscape gardener, and they rage against the system, especially Cyril, who drags Shirley to Highgate Cemetery to worship at the grave of Karl Marx. She's more interested in the foliage -- "That ivy could use a pruning," she notes -- than in the moribund class struggle, but she loves her man, even if he doesn't want to have children because he doesn't want to bring anyone else into an overpopulated world in which socialism has failed. Poor as they are, they have good hearts, taking in the mentally challenged stray Wayne (Jsson Watkins) for a night and putting him up in their "spare room," which is a large closet with a mattress and sleeping bag. But they have to contend with family: Cyril's aging mum (Edna Doré), who precipitates a crisis by locking herself out of her house, and his giddy sister, Valerie, whose husband runs a used-car lot and is a thorough cad. The crisis introduces us to mum's gentrifying next-door neighbors, Laetitia and Rupert, who have bought one of the row houses in a council estate and are renovating it to the height of yuppie chic. Rupert proclaims his mantra: "What made this country great was a place for everyone and everyone in his place." Then he adds, "And this is my place." The scenes from the lives of Laetitia and Rupert and from those of Valerie and Martin are hysterically funny, but Leigh knows that a little of them goes a long way -- a little of Valerie's manic giggle goes a very long way indeed -- so he wisely turns back to the more identifiably human (and humane) Cyril and Shirley to put things into perspective. The film concludes with Cyril and Shirley taking his mum up to the roof of the building in which they live to admire the rather drab view of the St. Pancras railway yards and the gasworks, with just a peek at St. Paul's. For once in the film, mum, who is usually sunk in senile confusion and depression, brightens a little: "This is the top of the world," she says. God help us, but it probably is.

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Highgate Cemetery, London

Feb 2017

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Highgate Cemetery, London

Anyone who has spent quality time with me during Spooky Season knows that I love walking cemeteries during October as the leaves are changing and the weather cools. I can immerse myself in the quiet splendor of hearing the noise of the city fall away and all I hear is the wind rustling through the trees. That was the experience I had when I took two trains and a bus out to Highgate, a burrow of…

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Events 9.8 (1860-1960)

1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives. 1862 – Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod. 1863 – American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. 1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. 1888 – Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested. 1888 – The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan. 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. 1888 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played. 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. 1898 – Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob. 1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people. 1905 – The 7.2 Mw  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people. 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. 1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles. 1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. 1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. 1925 – Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco. 1926 – Germany is admitted to the League of Nations. 1933 – Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq. 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people. 1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building. 1941 – World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad. 1943 – World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by radio. OB Süd immediately implements plans to disarm the Italian forces. 1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time. 1945 – The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier. 1946 – A referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria. 1952 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang. 1954 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.

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Finding the Right Roofer: Essential Tips for Hiring a Professional Contractor ?

When it comes to roofing repairs or installations, finding the right professional roofer is crucial for ensuring quality workmanship and peace of mind. Whether you’re in Highgate, London, Barnet, Edmonton, or any other part of the United Kingdom, here are some essential tips to help you find the perfect contractor for your roofing needs.

Research Local Roofers: Start by researching local roofers in your area. Look for reputable companies with a proven track record of excellence in roofing repairs and installations. Search for keywords like “roofers Highgate,” “roofer in London,” or “roofers Barnet” to find professionals near you.

Check Credentials and Experience: Verify the credentials and experience of potential roofers before hiring them. Look for contractors with proper licensing, insurance, and certification in roofing repairs and installations. Additionally, inquire about their years of experience and expertise in handling various types of roofing systems.

Read Reviews and Testimonials: Reading reviews and testimonials from past clients can provide valuable insights into the quality of a roofer’s work and customer service. Look for feedback on platforms like Google, Yelp, or Trustpilot to gauge the reputation of the contractor.

Ask for References: Don’t hesitate to ask potential roofers for references from previous clients. Contacting these references can give you firsthand information about the roofer’s professionalism, reliability, and the quality of their work.

Get Multiple Quotes: Obtain quotes from several roofers to compare prices and services. Be wary of significantly low or high bids, as they may indicate subpar materials or hidden costs. Choose a contractor who offers competitive pricing without compromising on quality.

Inquire About Warranty: Ensure that the roofer offers a warranty on their workmanship and materials. A reputable contractor will stand behind their work and provide guarantees for peace of mind.

Communication and Transparency: Choose a roofer who communicates clearly and transparently throughout the project. They should be responsive to your inquiries, provide updates on the progress, and address any concerns promptly.

By following these tips and conducting thorough research, you can find the right professional roofer to handle your roofing repairs or installations with confidence. Whether you need flat roof repair in London, roofing repairs in North London, or roofers in East London, hiring a reputable contractor is essential for ensuring the longevity and integrity of your roof.

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