A Brompton Cemetery Walking Tour

To return to map - press image button on taskbar (2nd icon on left). Political activist born in Moss Side, Manchester. Advocate for the poor and campaigner for women’s voting rights, she founded the Women’s Franchise League and later the Women’s Social and Political Union - many of whose members received prison sentences for their activities. You are listening to an extract from Emmeline Pankhurst’s Freedom or Death Speech, Hartford, Connecticut read by Elaine Wallace and Before I came to Holloway by M.C.R. read by Louise Bangay. The image is Emmeline Pankhurst seated (1913), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, and Emmeline Pankhurst’s grave, Brompton Cemetery by Catherine Harvey.

To return to map - press image button on taskbar (2nd icon on left). In 1838, architect Benjamin Baud won a competition to design Brompton Cemetery. One of the oldest garden cemeteries in Britain, it is still a working cemetery today. And its historic monuments, peeping through the wildlife that grows around it, have many stories to tell… You are listening to The Landlady, written and performed by Catherine Harvey and Remember by Christina Rossetti read by Catherine Harvey. The image is Brompton Cemetery by Catherine Harvey.