Mick's Monopoly challenge

Highgate Cemetery  review is done.    Added to  Strand ...         10 Adam Street (6a)                                       Henry Nicholls/Reuters      Added to  Electric Company  ......     Saturday, June 18     If you extrapolate The Mall eastwards the line goes through Wanstead, handy on days when there is a flypast, and the weather is warm enough to fire up the BBQ ....

HIGHGATE CEMETERY            Highgate Cemetery is best known as the last resting place of Karl Marx; and his grave is certainly imposing. But there's much, much, more to see.  There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries.  It's a cemetery when there's no church, otherwise a graveyard.       I've divided the graves into categories which will be familiar to Trivial Pursuit enthusiasts. History                Elizabeth Jackson (1801-1839)   Karl Marx (1818-1883)        The resplendent Karl Marx grave was funded by the Marx Memorial Fund, set up by the Communist Party in 1955. His original headstone (right) can still be seen nearby.      The political philosophies of Karl Marx were certainly significant and generally speaking admirable. But in practice they don’t appear to work too well in com...