EPITAPH FOR AN AGE - HIGHGATE CEMETERY
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2013
- Documentary about Highgate Cemetery and the Friends of Highgate Cemetery. Filmed in the early 80s. Gives a brief history before showing an Open Day, usually held four times a year back then.
What a superb documentary, we can’t make them like this today.
Great documentary and very relaxing. I visited Highgate in October of 2022 and it was such a wonderful experience. I arrived just after it opened and only encountered 3 other people. There was a frost and as I walked around the circle of Lebanon a light snow flurry came. It was so quiet, peaceful, and perfect. I love visiting old cemeteries when i travel and Highgate is my favorite one. Theyve left the perfect balance of wild nature and manmade monument together in harmony. One day ill return. My only wish is that i could be buried there but im afraid thats not in the cards for this American lol.
In 1973 as a teenager I lived in adjacent Balmore St,and would frequently take shortcuts through this most spiritual haven of peace.The open neglected tombs of that time are a sad memory,but,thanks to the friends of Highgate the restoration to former glory is growing apace.Well done to all who have given of their time....johnny.
Is that you Johnny Alucard???
Sorry,wrong Johnny.
john c
It was a joke. Just you were talking about living near Highgate and "Dracula A.D. 1972" is based on the whole early 70's Highgate Vampire scare that was going on. Johnny Alucard is one of the characters and David Farrant is the real life person that the character "Johnny Alucard" was loosely based on.
PancakeSally Ha Ha,I must read up on the vampire story of the time.I only recently heard of the scare,ironically I knew nothing of it all those years ago as I rambled through the cemetery alone.It was kinda spooky I suppose but a great shortcut to the parliament hill fields.I left there around 1974,time fly's.
I lived in croftdown road bit younger than you born 67 but did the same shortcut. Beautiful place my mums ashes were scattered there as she loved the tranquility of the place.
Filmed in the early 1980s, it appears. I enjoyed its unhurried, quiet approach to the subject.
1982
the section of Highgate covered in snow bring a tear to the eye! Too beautiful.
Predivno hvala Vam zelja mi je odavno da posjetim groblje Hajgejt nadam se da ce mi se zelja ostvariti toliko smirujuce djeluje na covjeka svaki dokumentarac, fotografije , zelim samo jos jednom da kazem hvala i nastavite sa prikazivanjima.
I have watched this program many times and get something out of it every time.. I am awed that people of that period paid what they did for those elaborate funerals . I was a student of history and when I retired in 2012 and planned to make a trip to Europe but had s major MS relapse which affected my whole body. I still keep hoping that I might get better but because of my age 69 it will probably be unlikely. I have always been interested in the Victorian Period, and continue to study it.🇺🇸✝️
Hope you are doing okay 🙂
Went there just over a year ago and it was magical. It’s not only for rich people- there are very old graves of young children and not every grave marker is ostentatious. It was lovely- very peaceful.
I found the whole pace of this documentary calming and peaceful. Thank you - so much history! I've often wanted to visit Highgate Cemetery - I'll make an effort to do so 😃
I was lucky enough to visit in 1985 and went on a hastily put together tour, which was entertaining and very informative. The best part though was after, being able to wander around and look at all the monuments on your own. I am so glad, health and safety wasn't an issue back then, common sense and respect for peoples final resting place also taking responsibility for your own actions, were the rule. In 2010, I visited again and took the tour, I was very disappointed with how much was off limits, being told, monuments were unsafe and due to health and safety, blah blah. I suspect the real reason is that, people can no longer be trusted not to damage the monuments and should even a slight accident happen, court action would lead to financial ruin.
Health and Safety has ruined exploration and adventures. Everything has to be so cosy and safe these days!
The photos of the cemetary in the snow were some of the most beautiful I've seen, more beautiful than the cemetary in the green. I was very touched by the Mastiff mourning and by the heart that knew to put him there.
I watch this docu every night before I go to bed, something about it is so relaxing. I love how timeless it is. I would love to visit Highgate one day, such a beautiful place steeped in so much history. It's amazing to think that in the fast, changing pace of the city of London, Highgate Cemetery stays the same like a time capsule
every night?
@@rooman66Yes 🤣😁
BEAUTIFUL PLACE.
I was there over 10 years ago and was so impressed. Would love to come back when travelling is easier again. Very good old documentary, thanks for uploading!
It’s beautiful how nature reclaimed the space - I hope they’ve left parts untouched in modern day as an example to this mystical beauty.
Only the Victorians fully understood the Necro - Erotic nature of funerals. From the large Angel gravestones, the mourning jewelry they wore and 6 black horses pulling your coffin to your final resting place. Beautiful. And yet this legacy they left us is fast vanishing from the landscape. Every year more and more of these graves are being removed due to time, vandalism and exposure to the elements. Give it another 30 years and they will all be gone.
Great video, and narrative. Thank you. 🙏🥀
I visited Highgate last spring, and found it the most beautiful, fasinating place,,, my dream is to be allowed to wander, but i know its not safe to do so, and the tour was wonderful, so informative,,,, one day I hope to do something to help the friends of Highgate XXX
This documentary is awesome. There are only a few documentaries from this time made in this way. It seems to catch something of the old bbc2 way of doing things. Combine that with another wonderful thing, Highgate Cemetery, and you have a perfect mix. This documentary has both nostalgia and a form of ASMR.
And I'm in it for a few fleeting seconds!!
A .beautiful. And fascinatlng Piace excelent documentary very informative
Love this documentary would love to see this restored to its former glory
What a beautiful haunting cemetery, the people the times in which they lived the stones and monuments a artist dream.
@plaguelock you must not speak fluent English then. Makes perfect sense.
@plaguelock You clearly read it lol
Great documentary
FANTASTIC documentary and tribute to a landmark of note 😀 but who, in my best posh narrator's voice, IS the narrator 😀 HE deserves a credit 😀
Anton Rogers
@@TheHighgatecemetery Thanks HC - WOW!!!😀 RIP Mr Rodgers
Thank you 💜💀💙💀💜 for the history
I love to visit one day soon
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I visited in 2013, and it is truly magnificent. The guided tour was totally inadequate though because 2 hours doesn't even scratch the surface of all there is to see. It is dangerous in places due to the slopes and often precarious headstones, but I would have loved to spend more time exploring, this doccie does not do it justice at all. Experience it yourself if you are able, then go explore Nunhead, Abney Park, Kensall Green and all the other magnificent cemeteries in London,
Stunning documentary
I visited Highgate in the 90s, I was amazed with the place. Will have to visit again.
+Grey Webs I know exactly what you mean cos back in1982 David Hague, my boyfriend at the time, used to take to Highgate Cemetary on Sundays and it was so insightfull and so fasinating, especially as we used to go on the guided tour
I went on a guided tour aswell, friends of highgate I do recall. I think it's still called that. I went on their website a few years ago. I was also looking at Italian and French Cemetaries. Wow the sculptures on grave's look amazing aswell. I was waiting for them to move. Being so life-like. Graveyards etc are peaceful whichever way you look at it. Thanks for contacting me Highgate Rules!!!
+Lorraine Ward As a child I use to watch Hammer films. many of them were filmed at Highgate.
+Grey Webs I'd love to take a trip to Highgate Cemetary again too, but someone informed me that they no longer do the guided tours. Which reminds me that I haven't had a day out in London for years..................................................it's really is such a magical place and the HAMMER HORROR Films used to be made there - creepy or what! :)
+Lorraine Ward Perhaps you can still go round Highgate with friends or alone if anyone dare too. when it was a guided tour I use to pay a donation on the way out. I'll have to find out more info. The catacombs were out of this world.
This video brought back memories of my childhood living on the opposite side of the road to a cemetery. The cemetery keeper and his wife were our friends and neighbors. They invited my brother and me to go over there to pick dandelion leaves for our pet rabbits. From my bedroom window as a child I often watched funeral processions arrive. The funeral directors still wore black top hats in those days. I felt nether fear nor sorrow. Death seemed like the natural conclusion to life. The stone mason who carved inscriptions on gravestones had lived in our house before us. A few discarded tomestones lay around our garden forming convenient low seats for a child reading a book.
Joy Hutchinson thank you for sharing this memory. It didn't leave you with a fascination for cemeteries?
@@TheHighgatecemetery No it didn't because I preferred my other view across the fields to a small hill. in the distance a steam train ran through the trees you could only see little white puffs of smoke. i do have a fascination for steam engines
This was a very well produced, written and actually filmed documentary. My meaning that likely 16mm film put through a camera to film the doc. The pictures, the information, the recounting of events and the history are well documented, cheers!
I listen to this to fall asleep to at night and I love it x
Sophie Osborne I do the same
it's quiet informative.
Congratulations for this marvellous documentary. It's most classy in every sense. Might I ask the name of the narrator and the name of the opening music please?
Thank you. It was made in the early 80s. Anton Rogers narrates. Music is Song of the Earth by Mahler
@@TheHighgatecemetery Thank you for your reply!
Love Highgate Cemetery, done 2 guided tours there. Incredible place. Thanks for uploading.
Such a shame that people lived so poorly back then. We've come a long way!
denverjim1955 we’ve not moved on with poverty at all there’s more foodbanks for the poor than ever no housing low paid jobs covid19 ie we’ve not changed at all. Your probably thinking more technology as that’s all that’s changed take that away we’re back here to what this documentary is about
Hammer films used the cemetery in some of their films. You can see some of the cemetery in the movie Taste the Blood of Dracula.
Went there last Saturday 7th May ----- Was brilliant !!!
Steve Johnson my Birthday 🎂
Fascinating!! Thanks for posting.
Thank you for posting
Fabulous documentary but why can one not wander & explore? Why is it so unsafe? Interesting insights happen when one is allowed to drift off the beaten path?
The dangers are many, hidden stones, tangled vines, many of the old graves have collapsed leaving deep, jagged holes. Once while photographing Nunhead cemetery I stepped onto the “lid” of a hidden crypt and my right leg went through up to my hip. Luckily I merely ripped my trousers and had several scrapes and cuts…more fortunately I was able to extract myself. As I was alone, had I broken my leg or had been unable to get out, who knows? I saw no one else in the cemetery for the 3 hours or so I was there. I might have eventually been found, but might have died from shock and/or exposure in the meantime.
Living in the U.S, I'll most likely never see Highgate, but enjoyed the video. Thank you S.C.Dixon for explaining the dangers, and why the tours don't allow people to explore on their own.
S. C. Dixon Sugar Blossoms, don't be such a drama queen.
barbie beber
I lived in England 3 yrs and loved it..but loved Highgate and its scary graves! stones tilting, grave stones (the long big ones) moved from time etc it was great...I miss it. Wish I never moved.
barbie beber Why not? Travel to London for a holiday. It's worth it!
Miguel de Carvalho Would love to go, wish my husband and I could afford it.
Been there ,like another world
although ive never visited highgate it remiends me a lot of abny park cemetry in stoke newington also in north london where ive visited a few times very peaceful and thought proviking ...
1deckie Reminds me of mount Jerome in Dublin.
YES...correction, it was TOUCHED..and semi restored...I got to see it before and enjoyed the leaning/opened/moved stones that were scary...and there is still a lot of graves covered in bushes etc..wonderful..
I would love to visit London and it's historical sites I have family from London but I'm from the states, Washington state.
Heather Hahn nothing is impossible, you can do it!
So beautiful ,love the place
I've enjoyed your program. Interesting.
Ruben Herrera thank you
Awesome video
Thank you
Hello i am Brasil oh great video 😎🇧🇷👏
This is great
It seems like the cemetery generates some revenue by visitors and tourists. The managers of the site should invest part of said revenue doing some up keeping on the ground. Trimming some overgrown tree branches and doing some lawn mowing would undoubtedly do wonders for the cemetery. Future generations can discover its magnificent history also.
This video was made in the early 80s, everything you suggest has been done.
Is Highgate still used ???? I'd love to visit here ,is it wheelchair accessible???
Highgate is sed to be highly haunted.im so pleased its being restored n have learned so much about London in yesteryear, thank you
Ironic that the rich and powerful in life fade to dust and are forgotten quickly (just like the rest of us) despite their pompous tombs, Latin inscriptions, et al. Death does not discriminate. It is the great equalizer.
Can anyone please say what is the main theme that keeps returning? The soundtrack music, what is it? Thanks.
It's from Mahler's 5th Symphony's 2nd movement. Please see my reply below to James Goldsmith. :)
Isola D Many thanks!
Is the l Highgate cemetery the most haunted cemetery in the world
When listing things typifying the Victorian Era you forgot child labor, high infant mortality, unbelievable rates of STDs, worker exploitation, poverty, pollution, epidemics, workhouses, etc. Let's be honest; everyone didn't salute the Butcher's Apron.
Who did the music in this documentary? I looked carefully at the end for the credits to tell me but nothing was listed.
Mahler. Song of the Earth
The other narrator is the actor who played Bilbo in the LOTR films - and Frodo in the radio play!
Steven P Ian Holm
Anyone know what the piece of music used at the start is?
Mahler. Song of the Earth
I recognize the voice of this documentary. Is he an actor?
Yes. Anton Rogers
@@TheHighgatecemetery thank you 😊
What is the music?? Its wonderful. Tried Shazam but no luck!
***** The first movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony (a funeral march).
***** And the music on the end credits is the second movement of Bruckner's Seventh symphony.
The music under the end credits is from the 2nd Movement of Bruckner's 2nd not 7tth Symphony.
Sorry, I stand corrected.
As per usual, the music was uncredited.
looks like something out of hammer horror films
Peter M hammer and other film companies have used Highgate
Peter m I'm sure this cemetery was used at the start of the film tales from the crypt in the 70s it certainly looks like high gate
Phil Collins correct, all the opening scenes of Tales from the Crypt were shot in Highgate, but this is an Amicus film production, not Hammer
I wonder what the angels speak of at night when everything is quiet and still
nice music.Credit?
John Feesey Mahler. Song of the Earth
Ian Holm reads the quotations. Next stop, the Shire.
richly engrave plaque geez I wish I was dead
grave West celebrity George Michael and jean simmons
Ok
Our monuments to our dead have become minimal compared to this.
Patrick Tackett and a lot less tasteful too
N jackhammer
looks like a cemetary of the rich