Volunteer Gardening Session to clear shrubbery on February 10th, 11am till 2pm. Drop in for an hour if you can spare time. We have the tools, just need the manpower. All abilities welcome.
February 10th Grave Gardening Session
Victims Remembered.
Many of our followers will be familiar with the Civilian Garden of Remembrance in Brandwood End but not so many of you will realise that this is the final resting place of close to sixty civilians who lost their lives during local bombing raids in 1940/41. The names of those buried here are listed in …
Section Marker Reinstated
The Marker that was moved to a safe distance following a several trees falling in a recent storm has been reinstated.
Volunteers keeping sites going.
Birmingham Open Spaces Forum, who collate the hours and tasks undertaken by Birmingham’s volunteers, have published their annual summary of work undertaken. When you consider the financial position that Birmingham Council find themselves in, it really shows how much effort and time volunteers are putting in to shore up parks, cemeteries and other sites around …
New Year Grave Gardening dates
Happy New Year
The Friends would like to thank all our supporters and especially our many volunteers who make our projects possible. Can we wish you all A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2024 Hopefully Spring will be here soon!
Storm brings 2 mature trees down.
Last gardening work party of 2023
The Friends have had half a dozen work parties in the cemetery but todays was the final one of 2023. As usual our aim was to remove as many self set Holly saplings from graves as possible. Many of the ‘saplings’ had now grown to cover several graves and hampered families in their genealogy searches or …
Wonderful Carols!
Our thanks the pupils and staff of St Albans R C Primary who gave their time to come and sing in the Cemetery today. This was an experiment this year but was an all out success so we hope they will repeat it next year. They sang a mix of traditional and modern carols with …
Choir Venue change
Please note… Owing to a funeral near the chapels we will be moving the Choir venue to near the Cross of Sacrifice on the Main Drive