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September 30, 2024

Finding Mabel

Researched and written by Carole Moody Mabel was lost. The problem was, that after her brief life, nobody today knew about her and so…

August 9, 2024

District Councillors Presentation

On the evening of July 24th, before the full council meeting, members of our group—Janet, Carole, and Rob—had the opportunity to present to the…

March 24, 2024

International Womens Day 2024 – marked with a rose

Each year we celebrate International Women’s Day and over the last few years we now put flowers on graves for some of the significant…

December 16, 2023

Reflecting On The Value Of Volunteers

This morning, I shared pictures on our Facebook group, capturing moments of our dedicated volunteers in action – Karl uncovering a fallen headstone buried…

November 16, 2023

Honoring Heroes: Remembrance Day Commemoration 2023

On November 11th, the Remembrance Day event unfolded near the Machine Gun Corps Memorial in the historic Folkestone cemetery. Despite the gloomy and wet…

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…