Just a timely reminder that, as was recently seen in a cemetery down south, cemeteries are not immune to raging fires in this heat. Brandwood End is tinder dry. Broken glass and shiny objects can concentrate the sun and start fires in this heat. Please take care what you leave near/on your family grave. An …
Summer visitor returns.
Well folks our annual visitor ‘Mrs Roe Deer’ is back. My husband literally bumped into her near Brandwood Pool. She ran off and presumably round the back of the pool through the undergrowth back towards the cemetery. This was at 11am today! I notice that Nigel’s photography was also near the middle of the day. …
New Contact Details for Bereavements Services.
Bereavements Services Offices have moved over to a centralised telephone and email system. All calls should now be directed to 0121 216 2000 and emails to bereavement.services@birmingham.gov.uk FBEC would suggest that, if you are sending an email enquiry, you should include BRANDWOOD END in the subject line. There are several options when you ring, opening …
Interesting maps
We thought members may be interested in these 2 maps. One shows the area of Brandwood End Cemetery as it was before the cemetery existed, but with the cemetery boundaries superimposed. The second shows the existing cemetery with the original 1838 map superimposed. Interesting to see the area of water marked originally on the bottom …
Bat Walk Cancelled
I am sorry to say that the Bat Walk that was due to be held on August the 9th has had to be cancelled. We will be trying to get it rescheduled but at the present time Parks are not able to support it. Hopefully Brum Bats can find another acceptable slot. Watch this space …
Tantalising information.
Those of you that follow a series on Chanel 5 called ‘Planes that won the War’ will have seen, in the episode screened on the 1st of July, the story of 8 Air man who lost their lives when their Lancaster crashed into ‘Ben Eighe’, a mountain in Scotland. The crash site was very remote, …
Civilian Garden looks glorious in the sunshine today.
We thought we would share with you these photos taken today on a warm summer morning in the Civilian Garden of Remembrance created in 1952 by Birmingham City Council as a memorial to the civilian dead of the 1939-45 war. The newly restored benches, the mini rose trees and flourishing geranium plants in the four …
Our Scene CIC Wildflower Planters
The lovely wild flower planters donated to FBEC by Our Scene CIC are beginning to show plants. We have our fingers crossed but the very hot dry weather has made it hard for the less ‘thuggish’ plants. We really need some decent rain- but so does everyone’s garden !
The Civilian Garden- 11 years on
This first picture popped up in our ‘facebook’ memories. The second picture was taken last week, 11 years on, by our Chairman, Julia. This year is a special anniversary for this garden area…….but more of that later!
