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Published: 2010-09-12 05:12:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 1477; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 27
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Description Another shot I took of Highgate Cemetery in London last year. I've been chatting to a few people about Highgate recently and remembered I still have all these photographs to upload.

Sorry for the very obvious title - I'm too clogged up with a head cold to think of anything deeply inspiring.
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Comments: 31

Carameja [2010-09-21 12:01:55 +0000 UTC]

Screw.. Damnit.. Souls...
ThΓ‘ts.. what I call a... Ivy.. ._.
How old is it?!
Its beautiful too
Also really something I would try to draw But than less light.. more Darkness
(Sorry, having my random Android mind moment)

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Carameja [2010-09-25 22:37:30 +0000 UTC]

I know! The cemetery isn't that old, it was built in something like 1839, but it is stunningly beautiful.

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Carameja In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-26 13:08:55 +0000 UTC]

Absolutly cool!

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Android17sLadyMisty [2010-09-16 12:23:33 +0000 UTC]

When I first looked at this picture I was like: Holy s!ht! That ivy is thick in some areas.
That cemetery looks pretty ancient too. How old is it?

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Android17sLadyMisty [2010-09-16 18:34:27 +0000 UTC]

It looks a great deal more ancient than it actually is. It was constructed in 1839. I think my house is older than that. But still, it's such a beautiful place.

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InTwilight [2010-09-13 20:14:10 +0000 UTC]

Ooh awesome! ^_^

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to InTwilight [2010-09-16 18:33:24 +0000 UTC]

Cheers, mate!

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Leaviel [2010-09-13 06:45:17 +0000 UTC]

PRETTTTYYYY!!!!

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Leaviel [2010-09-16 18:26:26 +0000 UTC]

Tis, tis! I'd reeeally love to see it all snowy in winter.

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Leaviel In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-19 20:21:29 +0000 UTC]

ooooo!!! you should go back then and talk another picture!

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Patricia-Roling [2010-09-12 18:10:37 +0000 UTC]

So...perfect...no...words. I cemeteries. It's just so haunting!!! I wonder what it would be like during the evening...mwahahaha...T'would be very interesting, to say in the least.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Patricia-Roling [2010-09-12 19:24:11 +0000 UTC]

It's utterly gorgeous. I love old cemeteries too, there's something very natural about them (new graveyards on the other hand give me the heebie jeebies!).

Well, during the evening the Highgate Vampire is supposed to emerge... That's the local legend anyways.

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Patricia-Roling In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-12 19:41:07 +0000 UTC]

Lucky! The only old one that I got to see was passing by one in Iowa on the way to my grandfather's funeral, and even that one was just somewhere around a hundred years old. -.- Oy vey. And new graveyards make me go run for mummy. No really; they're just plain creepy. I lurve the old legends...they make it so realistic...^.^ Hehe, I always try look at them in the Myth view (that they're just explaining why stuff disappears or why there are odd sounds somewhere) as to not become my very own paranoid, Agatha Christie-fueled self. I become very...odd sometimes when creeped out by ghost stories. Heh. It's sort of when my insomnia kicks in.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Patricia-Roling [2010-09-16 18:25:42 +0000 UTC]

Highgate cemetery isn't much older - it was constructed in 1839.

Oh yeah, I think there's something much more natural about overgrown old graveyards, but the new cemeteries make death just seem so, I don't know, clinical I think. Just plain creeps me out!

Oh you're an Agatha Christie fan? Never read any of her books, but I'm addicted to watching Poirot ROFL! Never repeat that

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Patricia-Roling In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-17 01:41:39 +0000 UTC]

I personally perfe Miss Marple book style, And Then There Were None (creepiest book you'll ever read. Dead inspiring as well. ), Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (the od version, because it had the best actors/actresses EVER CASTED for an Agatha Christie film. So beautiful...), and Miss Marple done my Geradine McEwan. No one else gets her quite right...aranoid But no one shall ever know my views on this, since you will never betray my confidence. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?

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waywardrogue [2010-09-12 12:54:13 +0000 UTC]

That's gorgeous and feel better okay!

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to waywardrogue [2010-09-12 19:22:53 +0000 UTC]

Double cheers! I went for a long walk today - think the fresh air did me some good. ^^

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waywardrogue In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-12 23:30:49 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad!

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myrmidryadthesecond [2010-09-12 10:44:33 +0000 UTC]

So pretty...I need to visit so bad.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to myrmidryadthesecond [2010-09-12 19:22:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh, you must! It's a beautiful place. I've really never seen anything like it. ^^

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myrmidryadthesecond In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-12 23:06:32 +0000 UTC]

Tis my plan to go to London with my best friend, visit Camden Market and Highfield Cemetary and make her go on the tube. She's been to London, but never on the tube. Madness.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to myrmidryadthesecond [2010-09-16 18:21:59 +0000 UTC]

Oh I looove Camden! My brother used to live there, so I know and love the area well.

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YukiOshi [2010-09-12 09:27:52 +0000 UTC]

FANTASTIC!

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to YukiOshi [2010-09-12 19:21:58 +0000 UTC]

Cheers! ^^ It is a beautiful place.

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Remus-Chocolade [2010-09-12 07:41:23 +0000 UTC]

I got extremely curious about the lives of those lying underneath those stones. About when was the cementry "open", so to speak? (Just woke up, can't remember a more fitting word.)

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to Remus-Chocolade [2010-09-12 19:21:40 +0000 UTC]

It's not too old - I think it was constructed around the early 1800s. There are quite a few famous people buried there e.g. Karl Marx.

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CindarellaPop [2010-09-12 05:16:25 +0000 UTC]

Wow,... it's almost too perfectly and attractively overgrown to be real! You weren't kidding when you said it was like a movie set.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to CindarellaPop [2010-09-12 19:19:31 +0000 UTC]

I know! Totally took my breath away... Until a black cat jumped out from behind a grave and I legged it.

I think it has been used for movie sets before. I can definitely imagine someone like Tim Burton filming around here! To add to the general creepyness, there's a local legend of a Highgate Vampire.

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CindarellaPop In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-12 19:24:38 +0000 UTC]

Highgate vampire! Oh dear.

Closest thing we have to a creepy legend around here is that an evil, flesh eating troll-like creature lives in the woods. I think he was made up to keep little kids from going down there at night (homeless people and drug addicts tend to go there at night.) We call the monster "Creepy." Not the most creative name.

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Weasley-Detectives In reply to CindarellaPop [2010-09-12 19:41:44 +0000 UTC]

Haha! Oh man, that's actually pretty hilarious. My niece is currently of the age where she believes everything adults tell her, no matter how far fetched, so I'm always filling her head with folktales of flesh-eating trolls. Mwaha!

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CindarellaPop In reply to Weasley-Detectives [2010-09-12 19:46:59 +0000 UTC]

That's great! You could tell her the story of our neighbor's brave hunting dog who attacked the troll and won and brought back its leg, so now the troll hobbles around on a peg and hates dogs with a blinding passion, so you have to bring them in at night or he'll eat them.

(Our neighbor will still tell you to this day that the dog really did bring back the troll's foot. )

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