Category: Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery

Great musical start to Heritage Open Week

The weather was dull and miserable but the music was anything but! What a great way to spend an hour in our beautiful cemetery. Thanks to  Suze and Brandwood Buzz, who organised our introduction to Shelly at Leaf Arts as part of their summer programme.

                                 

Shelly’s play list of music was superb and a group of over 20 people, with their own individual head sets, strolled  happily around the tree lined avenues remembering their youth and how important music can be to mental health.

It was a unanimous success and we can’t wait for Shelly to compile her next playlist. Thank you to everyone that attended. Heritage week, heritage music and  a beautiful heritage cemetery. What a great start to HERITAGE OPEN WEEK.

HERITAGE OPEN EVENTS.

Welcome to Heritage Open Week. Some space left tomorrow . Bathe in Nature…the 17th September at 10.30am.

Bathe in Nature.  A chance to enjoy a stroll around the cemetery whilst enjoying affirming and calming music via  headphones.  We still have a few spaces. Meet opposite the Lodge on the main drive at 10.20am ready for a 10.30am start.

The Symbolism of Angels Sunday 1.30pm.  Dr Josie Wall still has a few spaces on this fascinating talk and walk.  The morning session is fully booked.

Litter Pick up and coming.

We are holding our quarterly LITTER PICK on this coming Saturday the 6th September. On a fine day there is nothing nicer than strolling around the cemetery and listening to the birds singing and spotting the wild life.  Meet at the Lodge at 10am. We have the litter pickers and the bags….all we need is the man power. Stout footwear and gloves are recommended and under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.

Deutsche Bank battle the weather!

Today we were pleased to welcome five Deutsche Bank staff to the cemetery to continue the clearance of section B10 that their colleagues, and our Grave Gardeners, had begun this summer.

     

Despite really heavy rain for half an hour they were able to clear an amazing amount of shrubbery and expose another 8+graves that have been hidden for many years. Well done everyone.

This section is one of the older areas and has been neglected for some time but recent work by our Grave Gardeners and Deutsche Bank staff has meant that we have now made serious inroads. Well done to you all as I think you will agree the result is stunning.

If you would like to see more of the action today you can follow this link.