Necropolis – London's Journey of the Dead

Sure, London can still be pretty grim at times – we regularly see pigeons pecking at chicken bones, which is nearly cannibalism – but our city's history is crawling with disease, crime, poverty and more dead bodies than there were graves. A growing population and some pretty horrible medical conditions led to more death than London was ready for in the 1850s. The problem became so out of hand that corpses were stored beneath streets and stations before being carted out be buried in Surrey on the London Necropolis Railway. Venture into the caverns below Waterloo which are rumoured to be the remains of The Necropolis Station for an immersive historical tour that's as spooky as listening to the 'Psycho' soundtrack in a graveyard. Book in advance.