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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),

Due to rain forecast on Saturday afternoon and Sunday Alan decided he would pop in on Saturday morning (7 September 2024) to finish clearing up the remaining branches and brambles that we have been working on for the last two weeks and filled two dumpy bags. He then moved over to where the neighbours had

Friday 30 August While Rita was in Bridgwater, Alan decided he would pop in the cemetery and cement the kerbs and posts on the Bale grave. Rita came in later did a bit of weeding and helped clear up where Alan had been working. Still more work to be done tidying up on the inside