Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

How We Remembered After We Die is only partially up to us.

Our lasting impact will be remembered by those who survive us.

And so it's important to make sure that the impression we leave behind is a good one,

a moral one, and perhaps a sober one.

On the outskirts of London is an area known as the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

It's an amalgamation of several other burrows, which were merged together in the mid-1960s.

And within this location is the Chingford Mount Cemetery.

Opened in May of 1884 by the Abney Park Cemetery Company, Chingford Mount was a secondary

location for the city's more colourful characters.

It made sense, given its sister location had been opened in 1840 in what became known

as a notable cemetery for one noisy and smelly reason.

Bney Park was opened by Sir Robert Fowler, the Lord Mayor of London, who was quite large

in stature.

Frank Harris, a writer who knew and detested Fowler, wrote about a dinner party the two men

attended in which Fowler seemingly ate his weight in beef, gamebirds, and fish, then

partway through the meal without warning.

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