2023

A new gravestone was erected in May to commemorate Fanny Eaton as part of the Windrush celebrations. She was from Jamaica and sat for many of the Pre-Raphaelite painters. This year the green environment has been dominated by the weather with a long drought end of May...

2022

Last winter we planted 12 new trees – a mixture of natives and non-natives. We kept them well watered. We planted out the huge central round bed in spring with 400 plants, chosen as good for pollinators. We had to keep it watered through the drought. We took...

Gardening

The Friends of the cemetery have planted trees, gardened, recorded birds and insects, produced trails for kids, added an interpretation sign, and SO much more of that necessary ‘boring to read about’ work behind the scenes! The Friends meet weekly to care...
Spring 2019

Spring 2019

We are celebrating 150 years since the cemetery’s opening in 1869. We had a great winter kids club. Many can now identify a gorse bush, a birch tree – and know where ladybirds overwinter! The central round bed is awaiting a face-lift and we hope to have...