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Category: FriendsNews

News and specifically for the friends volunteer group

April 11, 2023

StrangeCargo Art Collaboration

StrangeCargo is well known to local people – in their words this art company “has been built on the ethos of involving other people…

March 7, 2023

The Brown Paper Parcel

Social Media can be a mixed blessing – but something it is seriously good at is sharing discoveries or findings with groups of common…

November 24, 2022

Armistice Day 2022

This year the weather stayed dry for us, although seasonally cold – and just before 11am a group of Veterans, Royal British Legion members,…

October 30, 2022

Friends of Folkestone Cemetery – How We Started

Written by Margaret Care and published in Autumn 2022 edition of GoFolkestone publication The group started in 2014 – it grew from two people…

October 30, 2022

Evocative Pictures

These two evocative pictures were recently added to our collection. Volunteer Hugh said the image on the left “was given to me by a…

October 24, 2022

White Garden Plan

As with most gardens – the White Garden is a work in progress, there has been planting throughout 2022 although the very hot months…

September 26, 2022

Baby Loss Awareness Week – event

Baby Loss awareness week is coming up 9th to 15th October. To mark this significant time and to raise awareness of the White Garden…

November 22, 2021

White Garden Planting Commences

During the mid and late 1900’s it was not an uncommon practice across the country for stillborn babies or ‘born sleeping’ babies to be…

August 6, 2021

Duty, Destiny & Disaster

Despite the summer rain yesterday evening – we held our first public walk and talk entitled Duty, Destiny and Disaster in the old cemetery….

July 20, 2021

The White Garden

Following on from the post entitled ‘Born Sleeping’ babies we have received many contacts either by email or in person supporting this work. Chris…

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