Portal:London/Did you know
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- …that the Folly Theatre, which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe, was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London?
- …that the Magnificent Seven are a group of 19th-century cemeteries on what were then the fringes of London?
- …that Kensal Green Cemetery is the only Victorian cemetery in Britain established by an Act of Parliament with a mandate that its bodies may not be exhumed?
- …that London's first non-denominational garden cemetery, at Abney Park, in Hackney, is the most important burial place in the UK of 19th-century Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Salvation Army ministers and educationalists?
- …that there were reports of a vampire haunting Highgate Cemetery (pictured) in the 1970s?
- …that Beatrix Potter took the names for many of the characters in her children's books from headstones in Brompton Cemetery? (There is even a certain Peter Rabbett buried there.)
