Elbie Lebrecht leads this leisurely walk around Willesden’s tranquil, 19th-century Jewish cemetery. A surprising number of artists – from royal portraitists to pulp fiction illustrators – have found their final resting place here, including Victorian painter Simeon Solomon, artist and suffragette Lily Delissa Joseph and Maximilian Eberstadt, secretary to the merchant banker Ernest Joseph Cassel, whose grave was designed by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. Read more in the Apr 2021 issue of JR or on our blog.
Meeting place: War memorial at the front of Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Beaconsfield Road, London, NW10 2JE.