Just a final reminder that the litter pick due to take place tomorrow, the 6th March, has had to be cancelled due to Covid restrictions and possible insurance issues. We will hopefully be back in June. Watch this space.
The more eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that the weather vane has been removed from the top of the chapel steeple. It became unsafe last year in one of the storms and was removed for health and safety reasons. The good news is that it is safe and will hopefully be repaired and …
Anyone visiting the cemetery in the next few days will see some fantastic work being undertaken. After many years the boards on the windows are being removed and replaced with reinforced Perspex, thus exposing the fantastic terracotta trace work and allowing light into the interior space. An unexpected effect is that the magnificent trees surrounding …
I am afraid that we have had to cancel our March Litter Pick due to Covid restrictions.* We will be back in June, on the 6th, as part of the ‘late’ Great British Spring Clean but in the meantime can we ask all our followers, who visit the cemetery, to remove any litter they see …
You may recall that pupils from St Albans R C Primary School worked alongside the Friends and staff from Birmingham Trees for Life to plant replacement trees along the cemetery boundary. We can report that they all appear to be doing well and we can’t wait to see them in blossom in the next few …
You can see, from the photograph above, that driving on the verges causes lots of often irreversible damage. There is no excuse! We know the avenues are narrow but the whole road system is a grid. If there is a parked car just use the next avenue and approach from the other end…..or reverse! If …
The cemetery is awash with swathes of Crocus, redeployed by the squirrels who ‘stole’ them from our plantings on the main drive. They still look good though!!
We have added 21 new shots, taken by committee member Carola Klein , to our amazing album of ‘snow shots’ of the cemetery. Carola’s new views are the last 21 in the album.
SUMMER IS A’COMIN AND THE HOURS ARE GETTING LONG………. Monday and Wednesday 8:30am to 7pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 3pm to 7pm Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.