Dead Good Travel was born out of adoration of cemeteries, graveyards and other places of the dead both in the UK and abroad. Over the years many holidays have always included a trip to the local cemetery or graveyard. After constantly dragging friends and loved ones around burial sites in any place I visited, I found I had acquired quite a knowledge on the subject (as well as a hell of a lot of books and pamphlets!).
Fast forward to a drunken evening in Wales with friends, coupled with the switching of a career in art to a career in funeral directing the idea to write a (sort of) travel blog with a twist was born.

To put it simply I am a tombstone traveller who has a grave addiction to the dead…Dead Good Travel!

Amy Peters is a funeral arranger originally from Kent and in her friends’ words “a dutty great goth”. Fascinated with the weird and wonderful from a young age, Amy is a horror film fanatic with a penchant for ghost stories and vampires. She has a specific interest in pathology and anatomy and all the grisly stuff that goes with them. After graduating with a BA in Fine Art from UCCA she spent the next 10 years working and managing art galleries throughout Kent, London and Surrey until giving it up in 2016 to work in the funeral sector. She currently lives in Surrey with her long-suffering partner Gavin and dog Gerty (who’s from Transylvania…told you…absolute goth!).

Contributors

Katie Roberts is a former journalist now working in a suitably gothic Victorian theatre. An early love of Edward Scissorhands led to a lifelong dedication to all things goth, with a particular obsession with vampires, hauntings and old spooky buildings. Originally from Essex, she currently lives over the road from a Victorian cemetery in the hills of West Yorkshire with her cat Trevor.

James Wright FSA ACIfA IHBC is a buildings archaeologist, architectural historian, conservation stonemason and author. Currently a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham, he has worked for the Museum of London Archaeology and a number of local authorities on structures such as the Tower of London, Palace of Westminster, Southwark Cathedral, King John’s Palace, Nottingham Castle, Knole and Newstead Abbey. Along with articles for several publications he has also written two books ‘Castles of Nottinghamshire’ (2008) and ‘A Palace For Our Kings – The history and archaeology of a Mediaeval royal palace in the heart of Sherwood Forest’(2016).
His greatest achievement though has been a score of 4.9 out of 5 for his photo on the Tumblr site Goths Up Trees.