Saturday 27 February 2011
BLONDIN's BIRTHDAY
14:00 at the Blondin memorial, Square 140 (Centre Avenue, just west of the Anglican Chapel)
Toasts, short readings and fond words to celebrate the great funambulist (born 28 February 1824), with members of the Blondin Society -- all welcome!

Saturday, 30 April – Sunday, 22 May 2011
Minimum after Minimalism
Intervention Gallery, Anglican Chapel
An exhibition curated by Lorenzo Belenguer, featuring work by Vanya Balogh, Lorenzo Belenguer, John Blandy, Cedric Christie, Elisabeth S Clark, Jeremy Evans, Jon Gershon, Kate Keara Pelen and Pete Webster; supported by Arts Council England and The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea through the Emerge 'Arts Activists Commissions' scheme in partnership with Engage and Artquest.

Wednesday 18 May 2011
The Passmore Edwards Legacy
Willesden Green Library Centre, Willesden High Road, London NW10 2SF
18:30
An illustrated lecture by Dean Evans, author of Funding the Ladder: The Passmore Edwards Legacy, discusses the life and legacy of the philanthropist – and library-builder – John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911), as part of an extensive programme of events to commemorate the centenary of his death and burial in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Friday, 24 June 2011
Charles Wood Taylor: unveiling
Charles Wood Taylor Monument, Square 83 (just above the meeting of Junction Avenue and South Branch Avenue, near the canal)
Cristián León, Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of Chile, and other representatives of the Republic of Chile, will join the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery in dedicating a new plaque on the memorial to Charles Wood Taylor (1792-1856), the English artist who designed the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Chile, which was officially adopted on 26 June 1834.

Saturday, 25 June 2011
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
14:00 in the Dissenters’ Chapel
AGM, followed by wine and nibbles

Saturday, 2 July 2011
OPEN DAY 2011
11.00 to 17.00
Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery Open Day 2011
Introductory and themed tours of the cemetery, catacomb tours throughout the day, children's Mutes and Mourners dress-up, displays and stalls from other cemetery societies, local history groups and specialists in items and services of particular interest to the Friends of historical cemeteries, including jewellery, photographs, and original and reproduction Victorian mourning dress.

Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 September 2011
Open House London

Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 September 2011
Anglican Chapel: Sculpture & Projections by Robert Bryce Muir
Dissenters' Gallery: Group show curated by Jack Cornish & Olivia Freeman

Saturday, 29 October 2011
St. Pancras Cruising Club
This private visit from the St. Pancras Cruising Club will bring a small fleet of narrowboats to the Grand Union Canal on the southern border of Kensal Green Cemetery.

The Dissenters' Chapel, on the east end of the cemetery, has a discrete entrance on Ladbroke Grove, just north of the Grand Union Canal. For lectures, we ask for a donation of £3.00 from visitors, or £2.00 from Friends, on the door; light refreshments are offered before and after the lecture, when the Friends' bookstall will also be open.

Ladbroke Grove entrance

Entrance to the Dissenters' Chapel

Past lectures

1991
To Paradise by Way of Kensal Green (Julian Litten)

1992
Embalming and Presentation (Mark Bowis)

1993
The Architecture of Kensal Green Cemetery (Jennifer Freeman)
Transport of the Dead 1450-1900 (Julian Litten)
Methods of Disposal of the Dead (David Pescod)

1994
Italian Cemeteries: Florence, Genoa and Venice (John Ashby)
Cremation: A Hundred Years of Burning the Dead (David Pescod)
Embalming (David Pescod)
Church Monuments: From Coffin Lids to Weeping Widows (Isobel Sinden)

1995
The Butterflies of Kensal Green Cemetery (Tim Freed)
Gone but Not Forgotten: Famous People of the Past (June Firkins)
Extraordinary Epitaphs (Nigel Rees)
Prehistoric Burial Sites (Robert Stephenson)
Post-Mortem Movements and the Rise of the Vampire (David Pescod)
The Treatment of Post-Industrial Corpses (David Pescod)

1996
The Notorious Earl of Mornington and his Wanstead Connections (Peter Lawrence)
Brookwood Cemetery and Its Railway (John Clarke)
Church Monuments and the Gothic Revival (Dr. Thomas Cocke)
Frogmore Mausoleum and Royal Burials at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor (Leslie Grout)
Preserved Corpses (David Pescod)

1997
Vampires (David Pescod)
The Monuments of Kensal Green Cemetery and their Stylistic Development (Dr. Roger Bowdler)
Mount Auburn Cemetery: America’s First Garden Cemetery (Dr. Stephen Jerome)
Eric Gill’s Monuments at Kensal Green and Elsewhere (Dr. David Peace)
The Prehistoric Iceman (David Pescod)
The Life, Death, Burial and Resurrection Company (Dr. Ruth Richardson)

1998
Frederick Salmon and St. Mark's Hospital (James Thomson)
The 5th Duke of Portland and his Burrowing Career (Roger Morgan)
Death and the Victorians (Robert Stephenson)
Burial Vaults of the Aristocracy (Dr. Julian Litten)
Spontaneous Human Combustion (David Pescod)

1999
Excavating the Crypt of Christ Church, Spitalfields (Jez Reeve)
The Cult of the Ruin (Christopher Woodward)
The Surgeon, Cadaver and the Resurrectionist (Karen Howell)
The Landscape of Kensal Green Cemetery, Its Inspiration and Planting (Dr. Brent Elliott)
From Victoria to Diana: Changing Attitudes to Death (Dr. Tony Walter)
Well Hung in London: The City’s Execution Sites (Robert Stephenson)

2000
West Norwood Cemetery (Bob Flanagan)
A History of the Mausoleum (Robert Stephenson)
Thackeray: The Road to Vanity Fair (David J Taylor)
The Royal Mausolea at Frogmore (Hermione Hobhouse)
Tombstones (Dr. John Physick)
Funerary Symbolism (Don Bianco)

2001
Disposal of the Dead in the Hindu Kush (David Pescod)
Music Hall Artistes Buried at Kensal Green and Other London Cemeteries (Terry Lomas)
The Work of the Friends of War Memorials (Maggie Goodall)
Burial Before Undertakers: Death in Early Modern England (Clare Gittings)
The Bravo Murder Mystery (Nicholas Reed)
Sir Marc Brunel: The Forgotten Genius (Michael Bennett)

2002
The Growth of Cremation 1820-2000 (Rev. Peter C. Jupp)
Edward Young, Night Thoughts and the Genesis of the Garden Cemetery (Prof. James Stevens Curl)
Funerals and Funeral Directing in London: A Look at the Last 100 Years (Brian Parsons)
Cadavers in the Cloisters: Death in Medieval England (Robert Stephenson)
The Work of Memorials by Artists (Harriet Frazer)

2003
Preservation of the Dead (Andrea Britton)
The Heraldic Funeral (Dr. Julian Litten)
Blondin: The Man Who Walked Over Niagara (George Speaight)
Highgate Cemetery -- Past, Present and Future (Jean Pateman)

2004
The Work of the Natural Death Centre (Stephanie Wienrich)
Abney Park Cemetery (David Solman)
The Railway of the Great Northern Cemetery (Martin Dawes)
The Story of Andrew Pears and his Transparent Soap (Andrea Cameron)

2005
A Walk in the Paradise Garden: 19th Century London Cemeteries (Ken Worple)
Don’t Drop the Coffin (Barry Albin)
The Medieval Churchyards of the City of London (Val Pretlove)
Twenty Years in a Doleful Profession (Celia Smith)

2006
From Welbeck via Woking to Kensal Green -- The Early History of Cremation (Brian Parsons)
Sir Edwin Chadwick and the London Dead (Ruth Richardson)