General Interest

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

Cemetery Regulations 1857

Regulations of the Folkestone Burial Board (Folkestone Chronicle 17 Jan 1857) Notices to be given, in the form prescribed, to the clerk to the…

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

St John Colwood Bennett 1852-1919

Folkestone Old Cemetery, Cheriton Road, Area 20, Grave 1696 – unmarked A medical surgeon whose wife petitioned for divorce in 1889, after he’d been…

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…

August 19, 2022

5 Steps Toward Healing When Grieving

After losing a loved one, you may experience powerful and even paralyzing emotions of sadness, despair, and loneliness. You feel numb and unmotivated to…

July 28, 2022

Family Trust Visit Pioneer Doctors Grave

Earlier In July we received an email asking about Edith Mary Pechey Phipson’s as we had posted a short bio of this significant lady…

July 28, 2022

Primary School Children Help With Cemetery Work

One of our volunteer group, now headmistress of Morehall Primary School – asked if she could bring a group of children along to the…

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Category: General Interest

Armistice Day 2022

Friends of Folkestone Cemetery – How We Started

Cemetery Regulations 1857

Evocative Pictures

St John Colwood Bennett 1852-1919

White Garden Plan

Baby Loss Awareness Week – event

5 Steps Toward Healing When Grieving

Family Trust Visit Pioneer Doctors Grave

Primary School Children Help With Cemetery Work