Old Blighty. Hampstead Heath and Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery August 2015

 

     I was blessed with good weather in the UK. But the the day I went to Highgate Cemetery it worked against me. It was a hot and sunny day so it was really hard to get a good shot of the over grown parts of the cemetery, the tomb stones were half in deep shadow and half in bright sun light, an impossible combination for a good photo. I walked from the hostel through Hampstead Heath on to Highgate.
   The cemetery was every thing you imagined, hundreds of tumbling down over grown tombstones, and the tombs of famous people.

Karl Marx, one of the most misunderstood men in history

 

One of the first famous persons grave I came across was Douglas Adams. Auther of that great trilogy in five parts. The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.

 

Douglas Adams, a small and modest grave

 

If your a Sex Pistols fan. Heres Malcolm Mclarens grave, less modest.

 

Malcolm Mclaren

 

Some more images of Highgate Cemetery

 

 

 

 

I walked through Hampstead Heath on the way to and from Highgate Cemetery. I,m amazed at its size, and that much it is near wilderness so close to London

The City of London from Hampstead Heath

 

Its like a remote mountain meadow

 

One of the many lakes on Hampstead Heath

 

Kenwood House. Hampstead Heath

In front of Kenwood House

People by one of the many lakes on Hampstead Heath

A swan on a lake

A country lane in Hampstead Heath