WARNING: This post contains material some may find distressing.
London is old. We know that. Londoners have been fighting, chopping bits off each other and putting various animals in formaldehyde for centuries now.
The result of all this gore is that we’ve now got various freaky spectacles to enjoy once the excitement of the London Eye gets a bit, y’know, samey. Here are some of the best…
1. A burial ground for plague victims
The plague of 1665 killed an estimated 100,000 Londoners (20 per cent of the city’s population) in seven months, so it’s hardly surprising that there are a few burial grounds still knocking about right under our feet.
One such graveyard is St Olave’s churchyard in the City of London, where 365 plague victims were… Read the full story