BOFFINS IN COFFINS - The Scientists and Inventors of Brompton Cemetery
- Brompton Cemetery
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £13.00
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Fulham
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n/a
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Sun, 23rd Oct 2022 @ 11:00 - 12:30
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11:00 - 12:30
From 1840, when the first grave was dug, the grim reaper has endowed Brompton Cemetery, London's strangest Royal Park, with a rich harvest of scientists and inventors who have changed our world from the discovery of a new element to the technology of everyday life. Our sepulchral sightseeing will include visits to the father of the drone and to a Victorian lady astronomer, while also affording distant but exotic views of scientific expeditions in 19th century India and China.
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to Brompton Cemetery. Please click here to purchase.
Laurence Scales For the last 12 years Laurence has been offering walking tours and talks focused on London's unparalleled history of discovery, invention and medicine. He is an archives volunteer at the Royal Institution and Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce and has contributed many articles to Londonist.com including a history of London trivia. He has twice set the British Library's Talk Science Christmas Quiz.
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Boffins in Coffins
Brompton Cemetery Tour |
11:00 - 12:30 | £13.00 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery, SW10 9UG
Area
Fulham
Nearest Station
Fulham Broadway (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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