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Islington’s Women’s Institute group visit Highgate cemetery

WI members at the cemetery

Published: September 30, 2011

THEY had read the book so now it was time to visit Highgate cemetery, the eerie setting for Audrey’s Niffenegger’s ghost story, Her Fearful Symmetry.

Islington’s Women’s Institute group wanted to take in the atmosphere of the 37-acre cemetery where Niffenegger’s Gothic spine-chiller is set among the overgrown graves.

But they also volunteered to help clear bindweed, ash seedlings and brambles from among the gravestones in the dappled sunlight with only the sound of the wind through the trees and the distant commentary of passing tour groups.

The women worked close to the graves of artist Lucien Freud and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.

The N1WI group meets at St James Hall, off Packington Street, Angel, on the last Tuesday of the month.

To find out more, go to www.n1wi.typepad.com

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