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Alan went to Cannington Quarry to purchase 3 bags of stone chipping and dropped them off at the cemetery. While he was there he decided he would put membrane and the chipping in the Nicholls grave H20 and completed the job by cleaning the kerbstones with scrubbing brush and water. He then moved over to […]

Another good working morning in the cemetery today, lots of jobs completed. Rita & Alan went in the cemetery earlier than usual as they wanted to finish off the Radford grave, Section 11-37a, which they managed to complete just as Astrid and Chris arrived. Astrid brought in several pots of seedlings which she took over

A lovely sunny day for the workers today, Astrid, Chris, Alan and Rita. SDC have emptied most of the dumpy bags that were filled with weeds and clippings. Fine Memorials have cemented and pinned the three granite tiers together and erected the repaired cross on the top of the Boulting grave started on Friday. The

Alan, Rita, Astrid and Dave in the cemetery today as Fine Memorial were in to work on the H22 Boulting grave. A large grey granite double memorial with 3 tier blocks which has come apart and slipped badly to one side, a large broken cross, and one of the kerbs broken. A big job to

Chris, Dave and Astrid in the cemetery today. No Alan and Rita as Alan is recovering from a bad back. We went to the wildflower area and cleared some of the weeds that were suffocating the existing wildflowers and also ready to sow further seeds. After filling two dumpy bags and as there were no

Alan and Rita arrived in the cemetery and made their way to the Radford 37a grave Section 11 plot 175 (the lost and forgotten grave worked on last week) and uncovered the bags on the cemented kerbs which Alan worked on Tuesday. All looked good, and when Dave arrived they put earth in the centre.

Another sunny day and while Alan unloaded the tools from the car Rita took 4 empty milk bottles filled with water and watered the wild flower area where we scattered the seeds last week, hopefully there are some left which the birds haven’t eaten! Dave, Chris and Astrid soon followed. We all made our way

Rita and Alan in the cemetery as Fine Memorials were working on the Boyce G65 and Bowden G 30 graves, Rita took a couple of photo’s of them at work. While they were there Alan decided to cement the kerbs of the White M119 back together and Rita started clearing the bluebell area which has

Yes Saturday, not Sunday this week. Lots to do but as Alan and Rita are due their second Covid jab on Sunday, they asked the other Friends if they could make it on Saturday instead. Everyone agreed so here we are, Astrid, Dave, Chris, Alan and Rita! The boys worked really hard today in the

Full house today, Alan, Rita, Dave, Astrid and Chris all working in the cemetery today. The boys were working on the White M119 grave, this is the last grave in the row next to the hedge and fence bordering Jam Factory Lane. The grave is in very poor condition and the centre of the grave