Spent the afternoon in Westminster abbey yesterday, and hadn't really appreciated just how many famous dead people are here or have a memorial, found it all a bit overwhelming tbh..

by ahorne155

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  1. It’s the most popular cemetery in the country, you know.

    People are dying to get in there.

  2. Don’t go to the cemetery, you will get overwhelmed by how many dead people there are.

  3. Two things:

    1. That’s a seriously high quality photo
    2. That lady in the blue jacket is either screaming or bored out of her tiny mind.

  4. If you like that sort of thing and haven’t been yet, St Paul’s Cathedral is fascinating too. Centuries of history.

  6. I like cemeteries. You get to mix with a lot of down to earth people.

  7. Yeah I went to canterbury cathedral and until I walked around I had no idea I was surrounded by dozens of dead archbishops (and a few kings!) They’re in big tombs all around. Sort of changed my perspective on it a bit.

    It’s an odd feeling. Oh that’s a nice sculpture…. oh, its on top of a stone box containing a corpse. Oh wow that’s King Henry IV and his wife inside that box…. oh and it’s been there 700 years.

  8. No one here gets out alive. Famous people just get better style rotting boxes

  11. You should have got someone to wear a red/white scarf and bobble so we could play wheres wally 🙂
    Its a nice photo.. and a beautiful building

  12. Winchester is good for dead history too. Bones of Saxon & Danish kings and bishops line the chancel, including Cnut, Aethelred the Unready, et al. 

  13. I was looking at second hand books in charity shops, the home of “disgraced celebrity books” I was quite overwhelmed.

  16. I know, it’s like every figure from an English history textbook is packed in there. And the aisles aren’t even that wide so you’re walking along and suddenly nose to nose with Margaret Beaufort’s effigy

  17. I walk past here multiple times a week, but have never been inside – keep meaning to do it

  18. St Mary’s Church in Warwick has some big historical figures too. Like Robert Dudley. Has a great tomb of bears and lions protecting him.

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