In September, as part of our Heritage Event Week, we would like to offer a small number of our members the chance to gain a few tips on photographic composition and subject from a professional photographer. This will not be a technical session but a hands on chance to learn a few ways to improve …
Members of Brum Bats will be monitoring the Bat activity in Brandwood End Cemetery over the next week, as part of the Batlas Project (Bat atlas) -to create a bat activity map of Birmingham and the Black Country.
Good evening, The Friends of Brandwood End Cemetery are pleased to confirm that we will holding a number of events in the cemetery during the Heritage Open event period in mid September. They will include A Bat Walk on the 1st September, A Historic Tree Walk on the afternoon of the 15th September, A chance …
Our thanks to David Lewis for his kind donation. David had travelled from Yorkshire to visit his fathers grave on what would have been his 100th Birthday. He has kindly given us some interesting background that we will shortly share with you all.
Due to financial constraints it would appear that the area adjacent to the Lodge Ramp would remain bare this year instead of full of its usual complement of Geraniums. The friends felt that this was not acceptable as this is a welcome flash of colour as you enter the cemetery, so we decided that we …
Those of you that visit our Civilian Garden of Remembrance, and enjoy its peace and calm can’t fail to have noticed that the Hedge has had a major spurt following our recent downpours. We are not able to cut the hedge at this time as DEFRA and RSPB instructions say that hedges should not be …
Our thanks to Gary Staples, who posts some amazing photographs of Brandwood End. Follow this link for his latest offering or view it on our facebook site.
I guess technically this is a self seeding nuisance, but it does give a beautiful splash of colour!
Quite a few people questioning why we haven’t seen the usual array of geraniums/polyanthus on maintained graves over the last couple of years. We don’t have an answer !
Such a shame that very little information seemed to have been circulated about Armed Forces Day. The usual larger events had obviously been cancelled due to Covid restrictions, but it appears that much of the press also failed to highlight the day- which fell yesterday the 26th June. Lets hope that 2022 will see it …