2024

Alan and Rita paid a quick visit to the cemetery today to see if the recent high winds had caused any damage within the cemetery (25 November 2024). There were plenty of small sticks and branches lying about, and one fairly large branch had come down from the Cedar tree in the centre of the […]

Just Chris working in the cemetery today (17 November 2024). He removed ivy and weeds from the Mountstevens grave E14 and also cleaned up the Reece/Parr E15. Just a little more work to finish this off. Well done Chris for filling another half bag. Hopefully a full team will be back next week weather permitting.

Just Alan and Rita working in the cemetery today (10 November 2024), wishing Dave a speedy recovery from his heavy cold. It turned out to be quite a nice day and much to our surprise the sun came out – only for 10 minutes – but it cheered us up. Alan spent the morning working

Rita an Alan were busy helping with Bridgwater Carnival and were unable to work in the cemetery today (3 November 2024). Dave popped in the cemetery for a couple of hours and cleaned up the M26 Hawkins and M52 Tucker graves and from the before and after photo’s you can see what a good job

Alan working in the cemetery today (30 October 2024) to sort out the Roberts grave M56 and Dave popped in for a chat. Alan went in to lay bricks in a row to support the kerbs. The job went well, it took two rows of bricks to bring up to the level required. The old

Alan and Rita working in the sunny cemetery today (27 October 2024) with a visit from Astrid still on her sticks and struggling along with Felix in tow. First job was to weed the wild flower garden, digging out the teasels and brambles and a quick tidy up before moving up to Section M. Stopping

Dave, Alan and Rita working in the cemetery with a visit from Astrid and Felix (13 September 2024). A few weeks ago Alan was in the cemetery and cleaned out the Date grave M75, so today Alan and Dave mixed up a batch of cement and proceeded to cement the kerbs and posts back in

Weather forecast not great, heavy showers toward mid-day but Dave was not to be put off and went in the cemetery today (6 September 2024). He did a great job cleaning out graves, M115 Chidgey, M99 Barrow and M97 Gratton and remembered to take before and after photo’s which took Rita a week to take

Chris, Alan and Rita in the cemetery today (Sunday 29 September). Weather forecast changed from rain all day to rain coming in late evening, so they chanced their luck – although windy no rain! Today the team concentrated on clearing the remainder of the ivy from along the pantomime wall. Most of this was cleared

Saturday 14 September A pleasant weekend – on Saturday 14 September for the Heritage Open Days Miles gave a tour of the cemetery, taking in some familiar and new stories, including James Cook, Rev. Fitzgerald, the Tuckers and Popes, Josaphine Clofullia, Charles Edward Bond (the anniversary of whose death was only a few days before),