Brompton Cemetery London

Brompton Cemetery is situated in West Brompton, close to Earls Court, in London. It is one of the 7 Magnificent Cemeteries of London, which are a ring of spectacular Victorian privately owned cemeteries built to ease the overcrowding from inner city churchyards. The main difference from this and the other Magnificent Cemeteries is that this location is less overgrown and the vegetation is better managed. The main roadway through the cemetery between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road is a busy thoroughfare for speeding cyclists, joggers and walkers. Even though it is situated within a bustling area of London, the traffic noise can disappear and it is quiet and pleasant walk. That serenity can be broken from the roar of the crowd from the nearby Stamford Bridge football ground, home of Chealsea FC, when a game is on. There are a number of notable burials featured in this video: 0m 10s – This is the family grave of the Burnside Family. It mentions Iris and Allan Burnside but only Allan is interred there. Iris was a passenger on the HMS Lusitania travelling from New York to Liverpool when it was sunk as part of the German unrestricted submarine warfare strategy in 1915. This was on of the reasons which brought the USA onto the Allies side against the Central Powers in the Great War (First World War). Her body was never recovered. 0m 31s – the monolith on the left, with the plaque with 3 figures on it, is the grave of Samuel Leigh Sotheby who was the grandson of bookseller and auctioneer John Sotheby, who helped establish the celebrated auction house. On the right is a repaired statue on the grave of Robert Coombes who was one of the was one of the greatest professional oarsmen of his time. He started off when he was a boy as an oarsman on the River Thames and became the English Sculling Champion three times. There is an alternative view of the grave of Robert Coombes at 1m 15s. 1m 48s – This the mausoleum of James McDonald who left Scotland when 15 years old to go to America. In the spirit of the American Dream, he went on to make his fortune in the oil industry, and was hugely influential in the oil and petroleum trade around the world. When he died in 1915, James was worth four million dollars. 1m 32s - Emmeline Pankhurst was a pioneering leader of the British suffragette movement. In 1999, Time magazine named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. 2m 04s – Features a youth, finely sculpted in a dramatic and emotive fin-de-siècle style, strewing flowers on the grave of Barbe Maria Theresa Sangiorgi. She was the widow of a Frenchman called Auguste Kettner. His claim to fame is he was the chef to Napoleon III. 2m 16s – The grave of Alexander John Warneford (also known as Rex Warneford) is notable for the illustration of one of his greatest exploits in taking down a German Zeppelin, for which he received the Victoria Cross. After all his courage and bravado, he eventually died on a test flight when the wing suffered a structural failure when in flight and he, not wearing his harness, fell out and died later of his horrific injuries. The backing track, is an original composition, called ‘Sunny Saturday’. The video was shot with an Insta360 Ace Pro and a Pixel 10 Pro on Saturday 25 April 2026.