Booking is now open for one of our September ‘Heritage Open’ Events. Caring for God’s Acre have been working on a project, with FBEC volunteers, to record the historic monuments and inscriptions in Brandwood End Cemetery. As part of Heritage Open week they are opening this experience up to the general public on the morning …
Photographic Sessions
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 …
Bat Activity being monitored.
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.
Heritage Open event in Brandwood End.
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 …
Kind Donation
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.
Planting around the Lodge.
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 …
Benches and Hedges in the Civilian Garden
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 …
Atmosphere in Brandwood End !
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.
Splashes of yellow. Weed or flower??
I guess technically this is a self seeding nuisance, but it does give a beautiful splash of colour!
Where have all the flowers gone?
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 !