London Month of the Dead - Guided Tour of West Norwood Cemetery

LIFE, DEATH & THE AFTERLIFE A Guided Tour of West Norwood Cemetery with Robert Stephenson Saturday 18th October 2025 at 12:00 noon & 3:00 pm Once revered as a sanctuary for the departed and the living alike, West Norwood emerged from the depths of Victorian London in 1837. With an air of aristocratic reverence, it swiftly earned its place among the illustrious Magnificent Seven cemeteries, becoming a haven where souls sought solace beneath the watchful gaze of towering monuments. Join Robert for an exploration of some of this wonderful cemetery's most cherished and surprising monuments, and how shifting - and enduring - attitudes to life, death, and what lies beyond have shaped the cemetery and its memorials for almost two hundred years. Tickets £12 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at West Norwood Cemetery Robert Stephenson Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

LIFE, DEATH & THE AFTERLIFE
A Guided Tour of West Norwood Cemetery with Robert Stephenson
Saturday 18th October 2025 at 12:00 noon & 3:00 pm

Once revered as a sanctuary for the departed and the living alike, West Norwood emerged from the depths of Victorian London in 1837. With an air of aristocratic reverence, it swiftly earned its place among the illustrious Magnificent Seven cemeteries, becoming a haven where souls sought solace beneath the watchful gaze of towering monuments.

Join Robert for an exploration of some of this wonderful cemetery's most cherished and surprising monuments, and how shifting - and enduring - attitudes to life, death, and what lies beyond have shaped the cemetery and its memorials for almost two hundred years.

Tickets £12 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at West Norwood Cemetery

Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.