Hoop Lane cemetery, one of London’s oldest Jewish burial places (it opened in 1897), will begin offering tours late this month featuring the graves of celebrities buried there.
As the Jewish Chronicle reports:
Cellist Jacqueline du Pre, rabbis Leo Baeck and Hugo Gryn, Barmitzvah Boy playwright Jack Rosenthal, agony aunt Marjorie Proops, actor Sydney Tafler and songwriter Jack Fishman are all buried in Hoop Lane Cemetery, Golders Green, which is administered by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation and West London Synagogue. […] Tours will begin by the end of the month, with visitors guided by a brochure of more than 50 interesting grave sites. Although the cemetery is not charging for the tours, it will “encourage donations” and hopes to form a Friends of Hoop Lane group. A gala dinner is already in the planning stage for 2017, when the cemetery marks its 120th anniversary.