Secret Life of Abney Park Cemetery Stoke Newington
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- Short documentary I made about the stone carving workshop at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington in London and a walk round the cemetery with stone carver Nigel Mantel.
Music: Jared C Balogh - Equal Value Ode to a Squirrel, Ravel - Ma Mere L'Oye played by Felipe Sarro
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Very interesting as my old house backed on to the cemetery from Manor rd. so it was like an extension of my garden in the early 80s..tree houses and blackberry picking, avoiding the glue sniffers, bonfire nights were legendary and I'm sure as kids we did run all over the graves and all over that church. I remember some parts where there were tiny headstones piled up, maybe paupers graves.
I lived around the corner from Abney, went to Thomas Abney School, I loved this cemetery as a child it was overgrown , ignored and unloved but it was a magical scary place where imagination could run wild !!! Thank you so much, anymore about olde Stokey ????
It's a great area Leslie. Good question about more Stokey videos, I've been meaning to walk the Hackney Brook for a few years so it would feature there
I love these unsung figures. Great filmmaking John. Thanks.
He’s such a great character P B - I reckon he’ll be around Leytonstone for the film festival this weekend
Fascinating and poignant. Such a wonderful place, sad to see it so neglected. I had no idea it's so beautiful.
John
your entering brilliance
here!
Pullzack Stomboni thanks - very kind of you - glad you enjoyed it
Thank you John for all your wonderful videos and your infinite knowledge, also introducing to these lovely peoples. I live in Dalston for many years, coming from France. I adore Hackney and places like the Habney cemetary are a jewel and a lovely refuge for
wildlife among those beautiful trees in this little green heaven. I think the church in the middle should stay as it is, just being clean regularly if possible, It give the place an eerie atmosphere that is quite charming.
Very fond memories of Abney Park and all the stonecarvers, the redoubtable Mr Price and the wonderful office staff.
Nice. Relaxing pace. Good information.
Thanks for the video, 30 years ago I was living off Stoke Newington church St, which runs parallel to the cemetery, I hope it remains in its present state , wild and untamed , are wild foxes still roaming the cemetery? I think Carl marks is all so buried there.
I think the cemetery is finally safe and I heard the chapel is being restored. I imagine the foxes still visit too
No, Karl Marx is buried in Highgate.
Great to see stone carving being taught as so many churches and public buildings are crying out for their stone carvings to be repaired and cleaned up.
incomprehensible why anyone would smash up cemetary monuments - but it's grand to see those who reverse such wanton acts
I always held a measure of esteem for mortuary sciences and the funerary industry. Some have pointed to the financial difficulties associated with death as a predatory practice that is simply a cost of living in our day and age. But I often dind myself reflecting on the times in which I was faced with grief, and looking every which way, found little comfort for lack of company that knows trauma as well as the cathartic means of moving on. Hopefully, I will be the strongest person at my father's funeral, having carried his father to his greater glory, and as my family began going thecway of all kith and kin, I found solace in speaking to the memory of family that I had the honor of providing palliative care for in the twilight. Funerals are for the living, to whom is owed respect, but unto the dead, only Truth.•.
What a lovely interesting man
The founder of the salvation army Gen. Booth is buried at Abney as are the 160 victims of a WW2 air raid when a bomb exploded on Coronation Avenue. I visited the cemetery in early 1978 just after the council bought it and I was shocked at just how dilapidated the place was. Graves had sunk and next to a path the ground had subsided to such an extent that it was possible to look within a grave and view the coffin. Awful.
It looks a lot better now thank goodness.
I thought he was going to talk about the cemetery. Not the case !