Chris, Astrid, Alan, Rita and Miles working in the cemetery today (7 June 2026). Miles our chairman was visiting from Scotland and quickly knuckled down and did some sterling work clearing weeds and grass from graves in section H with Astrid and Rita.
Chris and Alan started on the Symons H64 grave that Rita cleared last week, the heavy kerbs and posts were out of position on the back part of the grave. They managed to straighten up the kerbs and the two centre posts, the small posts had an ornamental metal piece fixed to the post as the grave originally had chain all the way around held up by the metal parts. Also placed on the back of the Symons grave is a stone book marking the remembrance of the Mr & Mrs Hutchings H73, this memorial was originally a few feet away in the middle of a pathway, it was placed on the Symons grave for safe keeping as it had been hit by the mower a few years ago. This was all askew so the boys straightened this up, it’s now looking good.
Meanwhile Astrid worked on the Bond grave H18 clearing grass and weeds and Rita worked on the Andrews grave H17 again clearing grass and weeds.
Miles did a great job, he managed to clear the Reed H38, Baker H37, Foley H36 and the Carman H35 graves and he took the full dumpy bag up to the waste area, Oh to be young and strong again!
After Chris and Alan had completed their work on the Symons and Hutchings memorials they then worked in Plan 6 on the Harris grave 6-28, they cleared the earth, grass and weeds, cleared the drainage holes and centralised the laid down headstone inside the grave.
Tools were packed away and all left for home satisfied with the amount of work they (Miles) had completed today.
