This visit was made in 2006. Our main speaker for the Church Society conference that year was Guy Prentiss Waters on the theme of Justification. Guy travelled over from America and I said we would have a day out in London, so I asked him where he would like to go. I assumed he would want to see some of the typical London sites, but his first choice was Bunhill Fields in Islington, not far north of the City of London. (I have a feeling that we also visited the British Museum.)

Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground for Nonconformists and therefore the resting place of the physical remains of various worthy Evangelicals of the past. Amongst those buried there are John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, William Blake, Susanna Wesley, Thomas Bayes, Isaac Wats and Thomas Newcomen. I have lifted those names from the page on the Wikipedia, but I do remember looking for several of the graves, Nearby is the Museum of Methodism and John Wesley’s House which we also visited. If you look at the Wikipedia article you will see these are a range of people who have a diversity of influences on church and nation.

As I recall Guy took quite few photos but if I took any I can’t find them now. The photo below is therefore taken from Wikimedia and is apparently by Mike Quinn.

Visited 2006.