The roar of traffic is a distant memory when you chance upon the white marble lion in Hackney's woodland haven, Abney Park. The roar of traffic is a distant memory when you chance upon the white ...

Lindsey Nature-ist: Abney Park Cemetery Chapel Lindsey Clarke Angel Lindsey Clarke A touch of the occult? Lindsey Clarke What is it? The first aboretum to be combined with a cemetery in Europe, Abney ...

Rumour has it that an unexploded Second World War bomb lies somewhere in the decay of Abney Park Cemetery. My travel buddy, David, the grandson of a Royal Air Force pilot and a military-history ...

Whatever your plans for more unusual Saturday night activities, we’re willing to bet they don’t usually involve Barbara Windsor, Matt Lucas, the world premiere of a new requiem, or hanging about in a ...

The chapel itself bears no saint’s name, for it is known as Europe’s oldest non-denominational chapel. Built in 1840, it was intended not as a place of worship but as a way-station for the Victorian ...

A “compromise” could mean alcohol is allowed to be served at a cemetery at events up to four nights a week. Hackney Council’s events team have applied for a licence to serve drinks at the newly ...

There is a place within walking distance from my home in North London to which I’ve been returning time and again since the lockdown. Most evenings, I stride past the increasingly crowded Clissold ...

Summary: First, the backstory: Artist Lee Simmons and her then boyfriend were sweeping up a mess of powder paint and glitter from the site of a previous installation. Lee put on her camcorder to ...

Police are stepping up patrols in a fashionable middle-class area in north London after locals complained that homeless people are holding drug-fuelled orgies in a cemetery. Residents in Stoke ...