Hannah Courtoy

All the people in my old family photos appear to be very much alive, thank the Lord.

I know but I still question why it was posted on a thread that was not related to Victorian Momento Mori Photography in any way.

Indigo8 It was the norm back in the Victorian era to be photographed with deceased members of the family.

While I don't completely dismiss the possibility of time travel, I don't think the Hannah Courtoy story holds up.

It reminded me, not sure why, of Michael Jacksons interest in Cryopreservation.

I wish you hadn't posted that picture FriedGreenTomatoes2.

Oh dear, those photos of dead family members are so sad. Thank goodness, the fashion did not last long.

Eh????

And weren’t the Victorians big on memento mori photography Maw? Pretty macabre but popular in it’s time.

So that's where they got the idea for the Tardis. I always thought it was a police box. Spooky music and the screen goes wavy..avy....avy......avvvvv....................

Oh, you are such a sceptic, RosieandherMaw 😁

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

Have you not heard of Mr Peabody?
I met him back in the 1950s when he popped back for a visit.

Whingey

Mausoleom in Bromptom cemetery said to contain a time machine

PS it’s a Mausoleum

I did and it “offers” the unlikely scenario of a teleportation device or Time machine.
The Victorians were fascinated by the occult, Conan Doyle believed in fairies at the bottom of the garden and many otherwise learned men were taken in by “photoshopped” fake images of these other worldly beings.
Seances and contact with the dead permeated every level of society, a curious mix of religious belief and pseudo-science . Much has since been debunked as hocus-pocus, perpetrated by charlatans and con-merchants.
I would have hoped we had moved on since those days. That 19th century urban myths and superstition were no longer held to be fact.
Apparently not.
This is all bunkum and has no more validity than the belief of the Panacea Society in Joanna Southcott’s Sealed box of prophecies. (And that Bedford was the original site of the Garden of Eden)

Look up Hannah Courtoy online

Mausoleum in Brompton Cemetery?
Said by whom?
This is getting like a parallel universe.

Says online the 🔑 got lost 80 years ago and locksmith cannot make a new one. Photos online show a 🔑 inside the lock! Must be another way to get in!

Could we nominate people to try it out for us?

Indigo8

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. It is a very interesting story. I wonder if "The Time Machine" by H G Wells, published in 1895, was inspired by the Hannah Courtoy Mausoleom.

I love the original film of the Time Machine

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. It is a very interesting story. I wonder if "The Time Machine" by H G Wells, published in 1895, was inspired by the Hannah Courtoy Mausoleom.

Urban myth, perpetuated by people who give tours ££.

Do you by chance have an interest in time travel?