However there are some beautiful old cemetaries in North London that every now and again i'll take a wander through on a bright Sunday afternoon (Rule #1 - Never go into a cemetary when it's not sunny as it goes from interesting and "ooh look at the dappled light" to eerie and "i may never get out of here alive").
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| Abney Park Chapel - a little eerie in my book |
In my limited experience I have however found there to be an unnatural amount of lone, middle-aged men sitting on benches in these dead centres of town. And on a particularly disturbing recent visit to Abney Park Cemetary in Stoke Newington I could swear that the same 3 men kept appearing in different parts of the grounds, despite there not being time for them to get there before we did (Rule #2 - don't go to cemetaries if you have a vivid imagination).
My paranoia was not helped by the fact that i had no sense of the cemetary's size or boundaries so we preceeded to get deeper and deeper into the park until the the trees thickened overhead, the comforting noise of traffic faded and the pathways became less trodden. (Rule #3 - take breadcrumbs)
I don't think i've ever been so relieved to see both a woman with a dog and a park map so with the haste of a possessed greyhound we got the hell out of there and didn't look back. (Don't let me put you off Abney Park Cemetary though as it's truely beautiful if you follow the rules above)
P.S. In case you were wondering the answer to my question, I've since found out that the cemetary is a popular gay dogging spot so yes I am right to be suspicious of lone men in cemetaries. (In this instance I'm also lucky not to be a man or you could be reading a far more traumatic ending.....)
http://www.abney-park.org.uk
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