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By Meeow99

Highgate Cemetery, Julius Beer Mausoleum

Decided to go visit Highgate Cemetery, beautiful Victorian place of rest. Some amazing tombs there, but this one shouts love and devotion to a deceased one, no mattter the cost.
The website says: "Testament to a father's love for his lost daughter, the mausoleum is a splendid work of art.  Designed by leading architect John Oldrid Scott and based on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it dominates the top of the cemetery.
Inside, Beer's daughter Ada is shown being lifted heavenwards by an angel in a very touching sculpture by H. H. Armstead."

Photography inside the mausoleum is not permitted, but it's beautiful and touching. Apparently the cost was such that, had it been created today, it would run to about £3 million.

The lion's head on the door of the mausoleum had to be today's blip.

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