These graves are off limits - I was almost KICKED OUT
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I was pretty upset about being accused of such a thing, I go out my way to avoid doing it. Apart from that incident it's an amazing cemetery featuring a pink pyramid and so many faces of the dead.
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If someone wanted to visit a grave that is 3 stones in, and can't walk on the fookin grass, are they expected to throw flowers from the path? Your sarcasm was hilarious Dan! I especially liked all the Celtic Crosses we cruised passed in here. Thank you. Deb of Aus.
you might get away with it if you explain what you do and that you wanting to document the stones and people buried there.
lol I just imagined someone with their granny's tombstone 5 rows deep setting up a trebuchet to chuck a bouquet over the lawn.
@@myriadhues457 Lol, I'm on the floor😄😂
There's a proper way to do it, and he wasn't.
What an amazing cemetery, it was a shame you couldn't get a closer look at the graves.
The bust at 1:59 looks like my oldest son! 😂 As for you walking on the grass, really, someone had a bug up their bum! I'd make a complaint to the Cemetery! We all should call and complain! Thank you Robert Darling for the permission to walk on the grass 😂😂😂
oh really lol, thats funny
If you can't walk over to read a gravestone, then why is there writing on it in the first place. May as well all be blank grave stones. This isn't a trail; or park it's a graveyard .
They should hire out binoculars
I’m afraid I would have told him politely that I’m not complying. It’s a public space and you’re entitled to read the gravestones. That is the whole of them and why they have inscriptions on them. Also you might be looking for a long departed relative of the family. I’d have asked him for his name too. What a jobs worth!!!
In the first instance it would be respectful to the deceased person if you walked between the graves to reach a headstone would it not?
Would you like it if someone had shown disrespect for the grave of your loved one? By trampling it and allowing unruly children dogs etc to show utter desrespect for a life once here??
After all the graves keepers have the right to lock the gates and be done with it. 😠
@@Scott-iu2jx I honestly fail to see the lack of proper respect by walking on the bloody grass several meters above the remains. Life goes on here above ground. In your opinion, how far from the grave do I have to be to rip a wet one in a respectful manner? 😏💨
@@Scott-iu2jx You have to walk on the grass to visit the graves. There’s nothing disrespectful about that.
It's a good thing to read the gravestones,to mention the deceased.You show them a great service, reminding us that they were once alive just as we are today.Bless you brother.
Never heard of anyone being told not to walk in the grass in the graveyard or cemetery. So many deceased people missed. You do a good job and always respectful.
There's not as much room in European cemeteries as there is in America. That's why they said no walking on the grass. You would be walking on top of someone's grave.
I would not be able to reach my parent's grave in NJ without walking on grass and over a few graves. I mean no disrespect.
It's bad Karma to not allow people to visit graves and say the deceased names. In my opinion, souls appreciate the visit. Is a ridiculous thing to request to not go on the grass. You are not playing rugby in there for fooks sake.
Dress up as a squirrel 🐿️
@@greywebs1944
No need to dress up as a squirrel nowadays. Just say you identify as a squirrel. He’ll be confused and not sure if he should say any more incase you have him sacked. See, I knew the madness would come in handy sooner or later🤣😂😂.
your apparently not allowed to acording to the website or you gotta get an safe escort to visit a grave away from the path
@@harrymcandrew1447 Binoculars be best 🤣
Very absurd.
So I did a little homework on one of the graves that you seen where you said he looked like he "had an electric shock" LOL. His full name was George Paul Chalmers and he was an artist in the 1800s. Not only was he an artist, but he was by then firmly established as one of the most important Scottish artists of his period.
According to the voters records in 1870, he lived at 19 Pitt street in Edinburgh. He led a pretty quiet and uneventful life and his art is, as far as I'm concerned, beautiful.
His life was cut short in 1878 when he was violently mugged just off Charlotte Square in Edinburgh and died as a result of his injuries. So sad...
Thanks Stacy. wow thats sad. I did do some research but I forgot the put the captions on the bloody video :(
It's terrific comments like yours that make this interesting video even more interesting! Im going to look Chalmers up. 😀
This is exactly what assures these souls arent forgotten. Awesome research and very interesting.
I looked up his information and artwork. He really was a lovely painter. I love graveyards. They are full of mysteries and wonder.
oh thankyou for the information ❤
I love the conversational style of your videos.. don’t let these stupid people in Edinburgh put you off Scotland… 😢. I live in Glasgow… you have every right! I wonder what cemetery you’d recommend for a novice? 🙂
Much respect to you! You handled yourself very well with that guy being a jerk. Well done.
Thanks Jason. Although he was polite he should have asked if I was visiting a relative first
@@deadgoodwalks I wish you would start giving the dates of the graves
I was so angry with that rude Rodney I couldn’t enjoy the video😡 what a loud, rude, obnoxious person he is🤬
A Rude Rodney?! love it, hope next video we meet a Kind Ken 🤭
Or a courteous Clive ….I’m overthinking now aren’t I ….
@@GypsyH23 or a nosy nelly😂🤣
They're worried about you walking on the grass but they're not worried about yelling, and waking up the dead!
Interesting you can't walk on the grass but in other places there are squatters living in and well using old mausoleums as toilets
Yep, and its me getting told off lol
Not in that cemetery there isn't. Probably the best well kept cemetery in the country
Oh that’s awful
How do they cut the freaking grass without stepping on it, or riding a lawnmower over it? I would have asked them where the "Do Not Walk on the Grass" signs are, then told them to piss off.
That's exactly what I do say to anyone giving it the big I am when I'm doing my walks around cemeteries..👍
Were you born stupid or did you practice hard at it
That guy was just the equivalent of a male Karen. Doesn’t pay to be nice, next time give him the same treatment they give you. You don’t owe him or anyone that works there an explanation, you could be filming for a hundred reasons, and that’s okay.
Idiot Karen/Kevin. You should of told him you are looking for your Grand Parents Graves.
If walking on the grass is not allowed then how in the hell are people able to visit graves of loved ones buried further in from the walk paths?
The pink pyramid is the grave of Andrew, Lord Rutherford, apparently. Here is what is says on the wiki: The monument is inscribed: Uxori desideratissimae contra votum superstes moerens posuit Andreas Rutherfurd, et sibi, MDCCCLII. ("Andrew Rutherfurd, surviving against his will, placed this tomb in mourning to his most beloved wife, and to himself, 1852"
Sounds as though his wife died before him and he wanted to be with her.
That’s so sad.
@@Oogie1155 I wonder what his beloved wife's name was.
I would be pissed off as well. How would descendants of the dead visit and show respect. So many exotic headstones and statues in this cemetery.
The pyramid was "placed by Andrew (Lord) Rutherfurd in mourning for his most beloved wife" whom he survived by two years "against his will, and for himself, in 1852"
Screw them, I’d have gone on the grass even more.
Top job Dan. There is always a Karen somewhere. Absolutely stunning cemetery.
@@JSutherland-l8c then leave your thoughts out in the open. Not on my comment.
I believe the phrase "sod off" is what one would say to a complete stranger telling me not to walk on the grass while I am walking about. I don't suffer fools! Love your videos, as you are so respectful.
Five minutes in and I have not seen a single flower yet. Maybe it’s because you can’t step on the grass.
Is there any signs? And i think hes just being a jobsworth... tell him fook off😂😂shouldve said you were visiting family graves
Yeah theres signs but I didn't see them until I was half way round ooops. I did in my head :)
Yes signs on every entrance.
A beautifully well maintained cemetary. So very large with beautiful grave ornaments. Thanks for going there Martha
What a stupid rule ,what about ancestry hunters who have found out a relative is buried there but isnt allowed to walk up to the grave .
Great walk. I googled some of the people you mentioned and there are some profound people that are buried in that cemetary. Some of them were pioneers in medicine along with being artists and politicians in some copacipty. I really enjoyed this video, glad to see my country isn't too bad to ya. Don't mind that guy hes probably from that areas. That town isn't too friendly to people that aren't from there. My grandmother would tell me that she liked that city, but they didn't care for her being from Glasgow.
People inscribe their tombstone so they can be read and remembered. That's some bull not being allowed close enough to read them! Great video, nonetheless.
What are they worried about? The grave opening up and encompassing you.
Not fair, the man on the lawnmower is on the grass.😅
Dan, somebody like me who came from America to visit, my great-grandparents in that cemetery would probably tell that man to mind his own business. As some of my family probably could be buried in that cemetery. I would not like the idea that if I had to walk across a lawn where my great-grandparents were buried. Then somebody has to throw a comment my way. What's going to happen, He's going get told to p*** off one time. I realized what you're doing a show so you could not do that. Most likely he would be challenged by anyone who's visiting their family if he was actually working there, and if he was told by them that he was not, they tell him to walk away. Great show and I really enjoyed the beautiful cemetery. Hopefully maybe next time you'll have a better situation.
Oh for Feck's sake why do some people make a big fuss about things that just aren't that damn important?!
Next time, tell them, I do less damage to the grass than the mowers and landscape crew! Or. " I'm here to see my Aunt and her grave is in the grassy area, and I can't pay my respect from the footpath. Now bug off.
What are they going to do to you if you're on the grass again? All of those graves have no one visiting them and you're giving them the light of day.
I wish I could have seen the name on the Chalmers marker…my Mothers maiden name was Chalmers and our descendants come from the UK and Scotland…I was this close…grrrrr
The Chalmers marker is. George Paul Chalmers RSA, noted Scottish painter. Has his own Wikipedia entry that has a photo of the marker and a painted self portrait. Even has a portrait painted of him by John Pettie in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
@@RobWaters I thank you so very much. I have been on ancestry and have searched one lineage of the Bacon side of my Dads family back to several Sir’s and Lords and ladies. Back to the early 1400’s. Now I will have to research the Chalmers side. My Mom was Mildred, my Uncle was Alfred, my Grandfather was Jesse Chalmers…I will have to look back further now. I appreciate you very much.
I would have told him i was visiting a relative….party pooper.
I love the owls
Thank you my friend. Lovely cemetery.
The reason you got pulled up for walking on the grass is because old coffins have been known to collapse from under your feet.
Oh my LORD!
Not !
Who was that man? Was he an authority of the law or the cemetery? If not, he has no right to yell about the grass!!!
Should've given him a spade, told him to dig a hole, climb in and stay there! What a complete tool! 😡
Lawn mowers go over the graves…….
So if you have flowers how are you expected to put the flowers on a grave without stepping on grass ?
- I didn't see any uniform or ID, look like a druggy to me.
Sam Bough was another painter. Health started to fail 55, had a stroke in the beginning of 1878 and passed in November of that year from prostate cancer at 56. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote an obituary for him, as that he was an admirer of Bough and had him paint Stevenson's house at Swanston and a lighthouse his father and brother engineered. The bronze medallion we saw on his grave was sculpted by another Scottish artist of note, sculptor WIlliam Brodie who's also buried in Dean.
That cemetery is huge! Great video thank you
What a slap in the face to the deceased! People are not allowed to pay their respects to those interred there because people would have to walk on the grass! People have gone bonkers!
You can walk between the stones up to the one you wish to visit, and then turn 90° to walk in front of it. That way you're not walking all over the other graves.
The Victorians had picnics and promenaded around cemeteries back in the day - not a problem back then !
Well you would wouldn’t you!😊
You potentially travel a long way to visit, I’d pack a picnic too
Awesome walk as always except for the Karen in the graveyard. Who died and made him king of the yard?
Thanks Colleen. Hopefully he sees this and changes his approach. He was polite enough but should have asked if I was visiting a relative first imo
3:24 that boy still be mad about the 2014 Scottish independence referendum not passing
They love the English really :D
You should’ve told that guy to go something physically impossible.
Who’s he think he is? There’s too many people in this world thinking they’re more important than they actually are.
Ya should have told him to do one Dan. You’re perfectly entitled to do what you’re doing.
What a stressful visit. These people you met dont really want the dead to rest in peace.
It's stepping onto the actual grave that's disrespectful.. so if the grave is 3 rows in.. walk between the Headstones, and stay off the grass in front of the Headstones. Easy to remember.
Strange man who wanders cemeteries randomly shouting at people--I think HE should be kicked out! Also, great name for a band: "Mucky Angel".
How can anyone visit a grave without walking on the grass? 🤔 It doesn’t seem like a very welcoming cemetery unfortunately. I think the people buried there would be glad to be visited. It is a very cool old cemetery. Thanks for showing us around it.
Woowwww! I am loving this cemetery! Just my type. Usually when I walk through an old one, it can be difficult to not walk on top of a grave if they are close. I always apologise to them so they know I don’t mean to be disrespectful.
That one guy really had it out for you! What a complaining jerk. I don't think walking on the grass was really an issue or problem but just an excuse for him be be an asshole. I would have just left or complained to his supervisor about his behavior. How can families visit graves without walking on the grass?
Well,that bloke put a damper on proceedings, you have a great show mate.👍✌️
That's insane what harm are you going to do walking on the grass !! I can't stand petty small minded rules 😔
I had always thought of Highpark Cemetery in London was the grooviest, but these faces and busts were so gothic and out of this world. Thanks for this video!
Do you mean Highgate?
When they start complaining I'll stop walking on them!
The pyramid grave said the name, "Rutherford Andrews" and wife, Sibl Mossel.
I'll be at Edinburgh next year and was looking to visit this place. Now gotta make sure to remember the grass thing :D
How stupid...what if you were looking for a lost relation..are you suppose to get binoculars out to read who your looking for! Bloody ridiculous. You were doing no harm...😠
You handled that well, telling them off, asking for credentials ect. could have set them off. You never know how crazy someone will react. I once had an old man almost run over tomb stones speeding his truck around a cemetery at approx 40 mph. All to cut me off before I got to my car so he could scream at me for where I parked. I was the only one there and he wasn't blocked off from anything, just had to make a slight detour around me would have took seconds. Instead he almost hit us w his truck and acted like he wanted to fight. So best to leave those types be if you can, they may have a gun.
Your paying respects to long forgotten people you stand on the grass and read away . Your well within your rights to you are not being disrespectful
Some of those reliefs and busts are stunning to be honest.
What a great place to wander around. Incredible headstones but it seems as if few women rated a sculpted head carving of themselves. Lots and lots of guys sure did.
George Heriot’s is NOT a “veterinary school”. Where did you get *that* from? 🤷🏻♂️
Sad how can people visit loved ones how barbaric, plus I don't see not 1 flower on the graves how sad 😢
That was funny the way those grounds keepers were bickering about. 😸😹
Those people were well off, so as everywhere they leave memorials to themselves that only a few will read or care!
Great tour of this cemetery Dan. You make me laugh so hard. Your comments could be incorporated into a standup routine! Strange maintenance workers, maybe they were having a bad day but you made the best of it. Thanks for taking me along! ♥️ XO
Thanks Janet. Yeah I do say some strange things lol
You should visit the grave of Benny Hill.
Is it written policy in law that disallows anyone from walking in between the headstones or is it some jumped up individuals who are taking thier job too seriously? If it is I would definitley get thrown out because I could not keep from photographing and studying the stones regardless of some dumb over protective rule. The graves are meant to be visited and the residents paid respect despite where the grave is.
Nice walk through with you... 😊 thanks for sharing.. side tracked me for a bit!😅
Thanks Dan. Great cemetery and some great names there 😃👍
All bow to Sir Ian
Thank you sir crotty! Yep, nice to find a relatively clean cemetery in edinburgh
1:55 this may, in fact, be the best “Danism” of the channel!
I’m so sorry Dan. ….I have never heard anything so ridiculous in my life! He had an Italian accent didn’t he? Know they are quite uptight about people getting near to graves in Italy, but this is extreme, unless they have had problems with vandals? I lived in Corstorphine,Edinburgh for ten years and visited here then ( 20yrs ago tho) and there was no problem then…even as a mum pushing a push chair!!… so I think I’d enquire as to HOW you are supposed to record famous graves, ie the Franklin expedition one? ….actually hearing it again I think he had a strong Scot’s accent…
Anyway, you showed us around and did a good video despite him. Cheer up! Get a permit from the office then you can shove it up his nose showing him!….best wishes. 🙋♀️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What a load of bs, if they don't want people to be on the grass then why's there no signs proclaiming that fact. Little man's on a bit of a power trip if ya ask me.
Have you done the big London cemeteries, Highgate, Kensal Green?
So nice to see such a well kept cemetery.
Greetings from Poteet Texas
Sorry I missed the LIVE. Had an appointment I couldn't miss but wish I did 😂
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! ❤
No worries Stacy, hope alls well
I would tell you to file a complaint, but I think you are in a predominately socialist country now.
David Scott’s face in green was so eerie. I wonder if it glows at night.
Col. Smith is buried in Ky. He has a large monument there (even though he was a confederate 😂). The grounds keepers all sound rather angry. Makes me want to avoid that place when I visit.
Nice cemetery. The groundsmen were perhaps just being over protective. Could be a result of previous incidents?
Either way, if it were the case there would have been a notice at the entrance gates stating that walking on the grass was not allowed.
There are signs on every entrance saying exactly that
Who told you , you can’t visit graves and walk on the grass to read headstones, the biggest load of shite I have heard . I visit a lot and never been told that . If someone said I couldn’t visit family headstones , they will be told to do one 😡🤬🐨🥰
It's a shame because I bet there's a lot of stories on the grass :)
Probably the only one visiting but a real thorn in that workers side at least he is taking good care of his lawn
I think that guy was just some random with a distorted sense of decorum...
What if someone wanted to visit the grave of an ancestor? They would have to walk on the grass.
I’d have asked for the reason not to be able to look at the graves not situated on the path. . . Some people are only justifying their jobs.
IF walking on the grass is forbidden, then so is running over the grass with a mower. Then there is also the digging of the grass which cannot be done unless someone walks on the grass.
This would have been a good Fawlty Towers sketch. How would Basil have handled this situation?
This one of the most interesting RUclips video-studies I’ve seen in a long time. If I live near here I would go with a still camera and compile an anthology of them including any person detail that could be found. Maybe you could get written permission to take such a videography or photographic compilation.
if he's an actual employee or cop, they're the only ones who can tell u stay off the grass and such, not some random scotish idiot. that guy looked like a random walker.
As someone who has wandered around many Edinburgh and Liverpool graveyards looking for ancestors, I would have asked him to see some sort of official proof that he worked there, otherwise I would continue to look at the graves. If you're not tearing up the grass or anything, and are walking between the headstones, you are usually well within your rights in a public graveyard.
@@deadpan666true the cemetery is private so can set whatever rules they want
I’m an American, and that guy was just being an asshole! You have a right to visit those graves! I would have called him out, called him a fucking asshole, and to get out of my space.. and I’m a 70 years old disabled grandma!🤣🤣🤣
Love Grandma Debbie
Obviously, the cemetery was for the great and the good. Looking at the size and quality of the gravestones and statuary, it wasn’t for Fred and Mary of Beggars Wynd. Maybe the grounds people are hyper vigilant to avoid vandalism. Thanks for taking us there. I quite like the faces on some of the graves. It makes them less anonymous.
I'm digging all those mausoleums lined up next to each other. Wow!
If the gentlemen didn't have any standing with the cemetery I wouldn't have listened. I would have went back on the grass lol. How else are people to visit their loved ones?
Gone back please, not went.
I live in kentucky. Not many battles here since it was a neutral state. My town was raided by that one general who was just burning down towns on his way to the south. Most likely that fellow died in the battle of perryville. A battle where the opposing generals sat and had coffee and breakfast together as the two armies were engaged in battle right in front of them...