2022

A bright and sunny day (22 May 2022) for the team of Alan, Dave, Chris and Rita in the cemetery today, and a big thanks to SDC for emptying the filled dumpy bags and for cutting the grass. The boys concentrated on the Vickery grave 11-24a. The grave was in a sorry state, kerbs and […]

No sun today (15 May 2022) and it didn’t rain until just as we were about to leave so a good working day with Dave, Chris, Astrid, Alan and Rita. More plants brought in the cemetery today so Astrid and Rita cleared another patch in the wild flower area that had become really overgrown with

Last week was rained off, today the sun was shining brightly for Chris, Astrid, Dave and Alan working in the cemetery today. Rita sent in 3 pots of wild flowers which Astrid took to the wild flower area she cleared a bit more ground, planted the flowers and gave them a good watering. Alan, Dave

Dave, Chris, Alan, Rita and Astrid at work in the cemetery today. Today’s task for the boys was to be cementing back kerbs and posts on several graves that needed to be repaired, but as there was no cement left it was back to the boundary fence of Halesleigh Road which was worked on last

A ‘full house’ today, the sunshine brought out Dave, Astrid, Chris, Alan and Rita all working together to sort out the area where the two ash trees were hacked down. A section of the large bramble bush had been trodden down to get to one of the trees so this was cleared by Alan with

Alan, Rita, Chris and a welcome back to Dave in the cemetery today, weather was warm – if you’re not in the shade! The boys put their efforts into the Milner G13 grave today where the landing had broken and sunk and was packed up level and cemented together a few weeks ago. Today the

Alan and Rita arrived in the cemetery as the sun came out, followed by Astrid and Miles our chairman who was welcomed with a pair of loppers as soon as he arrived, and not long after Chris arrived and he was welcomed back after a few weeks away, now fit and well. Astrid, Miles and

A lovely sunny day, only Alan and Rita fit and well enough to go into the cemetery today, but their grandson and partner, Dan and Beth were visiting and said they would like to accompany them. Alan and Rita took them on a tour of the cemetery and showed them the graves of their relatives

 Another beautiful and sunny day with Astrid, Dave, Alan and Rita working in the cemetery, sadly Chris is still poorly so we wish him a speedy recovery. Astrid and Rita spent most of the morning working in the wild flower area. The Buddleia bush in the corner was trimmed and ivy taken off the wall,

The Friends’ chairman Miles has been researching the names of those buried in Row 1 Section G in the St Mary’s part of the cemetery, that hopefully will confirm the precise location of graves and those buried there. There are no known plans of the layout, over the past ten years research has been carried