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November – December 2013 Visitors to the cemetery will have noticed that the chapel is being renovated. This will be the new centre for the gardeners once West Lodge is sold. The exterior and interior of the chapel will be renovated and all services will be...
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November-December 2012 We have had our annual walk round with our borough’s tree officer. A safety check was made earlier in the year and some of the most ailing trees will need to be felled. We have a high number of mature ash trees in the cemetery so are...
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October – December 2011 We find our big noticeboard in the cemetery near the northern gates is proving useful for keeping local people informed of surveys and events. One notable event was that the George Broad bronze memorial (George being often refrerred to as...
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We had a successful (AGM) meeting in November, finishing with an interactive debate over how to maintain a Victorian cemetery with its history of formal and sometimes adventurous planting, and at the same time foster biodiversity and a more informal planting.The round...
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Winter 2009/2010 The December hedge planting went very well. Many people came so that we were able to get all the plants in very efficiently. We also managed to clear weeds from earlier plantings. November 2009 The group replied to Sustrans’ proposal for a cycle...