Those of you that follow our Facebook page or web site will know that each year in the run up to Remembrance Sunday you may see some of our nine pairs of ‘Poppy Cross Placers’. We have nine pairs of volunteers that form part of our Poppy Cross Crew. Each year, between them, they will …
You may think we seem to be doing a lot of ‘grave clearance’, and we are ! We have a very short window Between September and the end of March to remove any large areas of Holly or Ivy as during nesting season DEFRA have regulations regarding disturbing nesting. This also affects how and when …
Staff from Deutsche Bank turned out again on the 9th to help clear a huge coppice of Holly and Ivy that had overtaken a number of graves making it impossible for family to locate or visit. The photograph below shows the effort it takes to clear Ivy once it has got hold. Great care has …
Last week we had to cancel the visit from Nat West Staff to help clear graves. As you all may remember, we were suffering from heavy rain and storm conditions -so we were concerned when it appeared things were going the same way with their replacement visit today! We needn’t have worried as three of …
September was an unusually busy month for FBEC with the inclusion of two ‘main’ events for us. We have featured the unveiling of our new Memorial stone but we also had an Open Event for Heritage and were able to tell visitors the stories behind the names on the Memorial. We were very pleased …
A Pause for Hope service of prayer and music, for all those affected by cancer, will be held in St. Dunstan’s Church High Street Kings Heath on Sunday 20 October at 3.00pm. Supported by Churches Together in Kings Heath, it is an opportunity to remember loved ones, pray for patients, carers, medical professionals, and those …
Come along to the Civilian Garden of Remembrance this Saturday, 14th,between 11am and 2pm to hear the stories behind the names on our new Memorial. Matt Felkin will be there with all his air raid records and maps. Not to be missed if you are interested in the impact WW2 had on civilians.
This is the first time that NIQ have been on site with the Friends and we hope they will return again as they all worked very hard……..and we are pretty sure they all enjoyed themselves! The area that they were working in had a section almost completely covered with large shrubs but NIQ staff worked …
Seventeen members of the public joined Ian Binnie on a fascinating walk around the cemetery to visit nine military graves, all of whom died in 1944. It was interesting to learn that several of them had been killed in accidents and not on active service.
