April 25, 2020 Support Our Work How you can support us Thank you for your interest in supporting the work of the old Folkestone Cemetery ‘Friends’ volunteer group. Our work…
September 20, 2020 Slow Worm Audit During a recent informal nature survey, many examples of birds, plants, butterflies and insects were identified, at a later date we spotted a common…
August 26, 2020 The Headstone Mystery Each Saturday morning our cemetery volunteers gather in the old Folkestone cemetery on Cheriton Road to clear away the scrubby weeds and bring a…
August 21, 2020 War Grave Puzzle By Carole Moody Something was amiss. I had two stones, apparently for Lewis Dilnot, on different graves. What was going on in section 20?…
August 21, 2020 Lewis Dilnot He was a cook on the TSS The Queen, working on the night she met a group of German torpedo boat destroyers. The Queen…
July 5, 2020 NFCF Newsletter The NFCF Newsletter 45 is now available for download and we have pleasure in sending this electronic version of the summer issue so that…
June 5, 2020 Grosser Kurfürst: 19th Century warship wreck off Kent protected The wreck of a German battleship that was sunk in 1878 off Folkestone, with the loss of nearly 300 lives, has been granted government…
June 5, 2020 Grosser Kurfurst memorial awarded Listed Building status Memorial to the Crew of the German Warship SMS Grosser Kurfürst, Cheriton Road Cemetery, Cheriton Road, Folkestone – Awarded Listed Building Status List Entry…
May 26, 2020 Anniversary of Air Raid Good Evening everyone, Due to the current situation the world finds itself in, I have to confess I broke with tradition and did not…
May 6, 2020 Virtual Cemetery Plan One of our (virtual) Volunteers has created a Virtual Cemetery Plan – and with help from Carole, also a volunteer, the plan is gradually…
May 5, 2020 Nature and History Resource Packs For those volunteers or anyone interested in nature and history contained within cemeteries and burial grounds there are some excellent resource packs available from…
