tower hamlets as good as highgate?

Just south of Mile End station is Tower Hamlets cemetery. Not quite Highgate cemetery for the famous and the odd (nor as old--graves date from 1841 to 1966), Tower Hamlets intrigues with its shabbiness. Although it is now maintained as a nature preserve, that preservation has not extended to repairing funerary statues or even removing vines from the gravestones. To see recent (well, 1930s) graves derelict is as arresting as the Victorian bits from Highgate (which Matt's group reconnoitered if I am not mistaken).