There is a new website now available for people to search for ancestors- for family history/genealogy projects. This website covers all the burial/cremation records for Birmingham City Council. The Offices will no longer carry out genealogy research and families will be directed to this website. The Offices will however continue to provide grave location information …
Moseley and Kings Heath SHED
Our thanks to Moseley and Kings Heath SHED Their members stepped up to the plate and helped make lots and lots of Hedgehog Houses and ‘do it yourself’ kits for events, as part of our Help for Hedgehogs event. Today we were able to present Mark, who attended events on behalf of SHED, with a …
Brandwood Bounty in the cemetery today!
Sunshine all the way!
Today’s litter pick was attended by a small select crew ! There were just 5 of us but we still managed a haul of 13 bags of litter- mainly from under hedges on the periphery of the site. 99% of the litter consisted of flower papers, blown into the undergrowth. Can we ask visitors again, …
Final September Litter Pick Reminder
Final reminder, our September Litter Pick will be taking place on this Saturday morning, the 2nd September. Please meet at the Lodge on the main drive at 10am and we will finish at 11.30am. This will be our final Litter pick before the onset of Winter! Our next visit will be in December. Please think …
Extension to our Help for Hedgehogs project
FBEC are pleased to announce that Heritage Lottery, the grant providers for the above project, have agreed a 3 month extension to our time schedule and some additional expenditure. We would like to thank all the people that provided items free of charge and gave their time for free. This has resulted in an under …
Forward notice for our September Litter Pick
Gosh where does the time go? It only seems like yesterday that Julia met everyone in the cemetery for our July Litter Pick! This is our first reminder for the next one……. Saturday 2nd September. 10am at the Lodge on the main drive.
Beautiful, and busy, day in Brandwood End.
Today I popped into the cemetery as ‘Idverde’, the contractors that mow , kindly agreed to take some ‘width’ off our Civilian Garden hedges. Nesting now over, so hard cut back undertaken with heavy duty equipment. The hedge was thriving so well and putting on so much growth that it was beginning to impede the …
Heritage Hedge maturing well.
Those of you that follow the activities of FBEC will know that a few years ago we enlisted the help of local pupils to create yet another hedged area to surround a small section of War Graves that we felt needed to be defined. The majority of our 300+ War Graves are scattered throughout the …
Trim for our hedge!!
Despite agreeing that no serious hedge cutting would take place to our hedge surrounding the Civilian Garden of Remembrance (for ecological reasons), we had to give in- and do a slight top trim today as some of the uppermost shoots were stretching nearly a meter above the hedge itself!! Before, with the stragglers standing …