Look closely at the adverts on the newspaper

Use the principal letters and number

Website: hgcmty.com

Note the obvious letter from each advert and the ordinal number for the position of that letter. So “H” (Kentish Town Rugby) is “first”, “G” (Grants Biscuits) is ‘Second’ etc. “Dot” is the “.” in the seventh position.

Find the archivist’s name

The name is mentioned in the pamphlet

Archivist: Jill Barker

Found in the pamphlet.

Study the Undertaker’s business card

The letters on reverse of card indicate numbers on another item.

ID part 1: 243

The letters on the reverse of the Undertaker’s business card reference the positions of images of gravestones in the pamphlet. The letter colours - red or green - refer to the side.

Follow the order ‘A,B,C’ and count the number of gravestones in the photos in that position and side with that colour.

Study the lamplighter’s business card back

Find the structures on the map and other references to them.

ID part 2: 261

Look at the reverse of the Lamplighter’s business card.

From the map, discover the names of the structures on the reverse of the card: Mausoleum, Bridge and Monopteros.

From the pamphlet, take each structure’s position in the pamphlet’s “Top Ten” list to discover: Mausoleum -2, Bridge - 6 and Monopteros - 1.

Study the gravedigger’s business card

Look for numbers hidden on the card

ID part 3: 378

The numbers are hidden in the text:

TH REE   sEveN   eight

Look for clues referring to the business cards

Look at the death certificate

Order of ID: 243-378-261

The symbols on the back of the death certificate show the order of the codes: skull (undertaker), shovel (gravedigger) and lamp (lamplighter)

Look at the death certificate for a cipher

Find a paragraph relating to the cipher words

Password: Tombstone

Follow the order on the back of the death certificate: Monk, Guide, Hangman etc. and find each paragraph in the pamphlet that mention those people. The letter to use is the initial capital letter for that paragraph. So:

Monk – T
Guide – O
Hangman – M
Etc.

First, find a name

Find the jailer’s name

Discover the Jailer’s name Arthur Watson from the death certificate.

Work out date of death of Arthur Watson

Use death certificate and pamphlet

Arthur Watson date of death: 23/10/1923

Combine information from the death certificate (day), and photo of gravestone on the pamphlet: Month -: the pamphlet states that those buried in October have holly symbols on the gravestone. Year is shown on gravestone.

Look at the gravestones on the photo with Arthur Watson’s

Find these gravestones

Plot number: EP040

Use the photo of the grave in the pamphlet (which shows different types of grave either side) to work out that Arthur Watson’s plot number is: EP040.

Look for cipher key from website

Use the cipher from Arthur’s burial record

Message: THE IRON KEY IN THE LAKE

Use the Cipher key after opening Arthur Watson’s burial record to decode the message on the back of his photo.

Match the shapes on the cipher so “>” matches the shape on the cipher where “T” is. The shapes with dots are the ones with the dots next to the cipher.

Search for Eliza Green

Work out death date across different sources

Date of death: 11/02/1896

Research Eliza Green from the newspaper article.

Day: Eliza died the day before bells were rung (Newspaper) and Bells are rung on the 12th (pamphlet), so day was the 11th

Month: Newspaper mentions “a bitter February night”.

Year: Pamphlet grave photo shows the year, 1896

Eliza Green’s plot. Look at shapes of graves in the pamphlet photo

Note extra clues on the pamphlet and map.

Plot number: TF008

The clues are contained within the pamphlet and map:

• Watermarks are visible from the 1961 flood in The Dell, The Folly, The Cedar Garden, Percival’s Corner and The South and West Plots.
• Convicted criminals (eg Eliza) can’t be buried in Holy Glade, Percival’s Corner or in either of the Gardens.

Eliza’s grave shows watermark damage and as a criminal, can only be in The Dell, The Folly, The South or West Plots.

The photo shows Eliza’s ‘Roof’ tombstone next to a Serpentine tombstone.

The only location of this combination and in the allowed sections, are in The Folly, with Eliza at TF008

Study the cipher key on Eliza Green’s Burial Records page

Follow the instructions to decode the 2 messages on photo

Messages: COPPER KEY IN THE CRYPT
& BRASS KEY IN THE WELL

The cipher on Eliza’s burial records is a ‘Caesar-style Shifting guide’.

Take the first letter in the coded message “A”, then looking at “A” in the cipher’s alphabet, follow the first instruction “2 Forward”. This takes you to C on the alphabet. Then, for the next letter in the code, “Q”, follow the next instruction, “2 Back” which takes you to O.

Each letter uses one instruction.

Follow the next instruction for the next letter and so on. After the last instruction, start from the first one again.

Use the keys to locate the grave

Follow the clues with the keys

Plot location: Centre PLOT 009 / CP009

Use the decoded messages from the photos, draw circles with the keys to reveal the hidden plot.

Eg Copper Key in the Crypt. Place a pen through one of the holes of the Copper key and on the dot by the Crypt. With another pen, draw a circle.

Repeat for the other two keys to locate a single grave that is in the intersection of all 3 circles.