Meeting place: By the archway just inside the main gate of West Norwood Cemetery, West Norwood, SE27 9JU
West Norwood Cemetery was opened in 1837 and designed by Sir William Tite. This was the second of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. West Norwood is the resting place of many self-made Victorian industrialists, inventors, scholars and manufacturers, including Mrs Beeton, Sir Henry Doulton, Charles Spurgeon and Sir Henry Tate. Dr Jane Jordan will be leading this tour. She is an author and academic.