Today in the cemetery…….
Spring tidy up for Civilian Garden.
Lucky for us, the sun shone today as a few of the Committee of FBEC wrestled with huge bags of bark to top dress the beds in The Civilian Garden of Remembrance! A few weeds pulled, a bit of snipping here and there, some bark, a rake and a sweep ….and everything soon looked …
Work starting on ‘make safe’ and temp roof.
We are now seeing a small amount of work starting to move fences in and then make masonry safe. Planning permission is still pending for a temporary roof on half of the building to protect the walls from the weather etc. With Bereavement Services we hope to raise funds for some ‘interpretation’ so members of …
Advance warning!
As you can see, we are now back functioning and no longer need to keep amending previous posts! Thank you Pod Nosh!! Can our Litter Pick supporters, and anyone else that would like to come and assist, add this date to their Diary. This year, as usual we will be supporting the national Keep Britain …
Action Re chapels and surroundings!
As the observant amongst you will have noticed, we are still having to ‘extend/amend’ existing posts as we are unable to add new ones! The organisation running our site are trying desperately to rectify this but in the mean time this post will get longer and longer… Following our request, the fencing surrounding the chapels …
Schools and Councillors support Hedgehog Interpretation unveiling.
Thought some of you may be interested in this link to an album we are creating for the above event.
The Last Litter Pick of 2017!
Gosh, where has 2017 gone. Today saw the last scheduled Litter Pick for 2017 and hopefully by the time we ‘pick’ again in March, we may be seeing some signs of Spring in 2018! Our thanks to today’s volunteers. Here….yet again ….are some more early snowdrops we found today and also some of the fungi …
Final event in our year long ‘Help for Hedgehogs’ project.
On Wednesday this week we unveiled our latest addition to Brandwood End Cemetery….a lovely Interpretation Board displaying lots of information about how to ‘Help Hedgehogs’. This is the final event in our Heritage Lottery sponsored ‘Help for Hedgehogs’ project. Lots of people to thank today…. Councillor Tristran Chatfield, who unveiled the board for us , …
Passchendaele and Brandwood End
Many men fell at the Battle of Passchendaele, which is especially remembered this week for it is 100 years since that bloody conflict. As a small part of this, The Friends of Brandwood End have been encouraged to research graves to highlight at least one of those Soldiers. We were looking for a casualty who …
A Living Memorial for the ‘Unremembered’ of the Labour Corps
Today, on Remembrance Sunday, The Friends took part in a ‘Living Memorial’ to highlight those groups of people who have often been forgotten for the service they provided during conflicts. In highlighting the Labour Corps we wanted to remind people of the work done by this group, especially in WWI. We have 9 members of …