We seem to have had a busy month doing lots of routine things in the cemetery. We have had our usual Grave Gardeners who come in every month and help clear graves. Sue and Ray, our Civilian Garden champions, are overjoyed as the Hedge has now been deemed free of nesting birds and brought back under control.
Two of our larger trees have shed branches, probably as a result of the drought, so the Tree Surgeons have remained as regular visitors. Our new trees and flower tubs have flourished, but only because our volunteers have watered (almost daily) during the hot weather.
Our Facebook followers have leapt in to photograph graves and never cease to amaze us with their historical Knowledge and their willingness to share their research. A special thank you to Matt Felkin. who runs his own WW1 Facebook page but still finds time to share information to our page and answer queries from contributors. His knowledge of BARRA information is extensive.
Our followers on Facebook, who have Ancestry accounts or access to historic newspapers, have filled in background and helped us identify a number of Military and Civilian graves that we had no records of previously. (The Corporate and Gardening groups have uncovered the graves from the shrubbery and then another volunteer team have photographed and recorded them )
Without our volunteers and supporters we would not be able to achieve as much as we have in the cemetery and we hope you will agree that things have slowly improved over the last 20 years that FBEC have been about. Special mention to Bereavement Service Ground staff who go above and beyond.
