October 16, 2025 BBC Item: The island where human remains rise to the surface Published October 2025 — adapted from BBC News reporting, with additional historical context Out in the Medway Estuary, not far from Sheerness, lies a…
October 4, 2025 Plans unveiled for eco-friendly burial ground in Hythe countryside A new natural burial ground could be created on grassland opposite Sene Valley Golf Club in Hythe. Funeral director Holly Lyon-Hawk, of Gentle Endings,…
August 9, 2025 With Councils under pressure to increase development does this signal a wider trend? Campaigners are opposing plans to build 20 homes on the former Tunbridge Wells Cemetery in Benhall Mill Road, arguing that human remains may still…
August 7, 2025 Heather Bowden 1947 – 2025 On behalf of the Folkestone Cemetery Volunteer Group, Margaret, Damon and I attended the funeral of Heather Bowden, held today at Hawkinge Crematorium. Heather…
August 6, 2025 Nuns Graves Holmhurst Hidden in the woods at Holmhurst St Mary are a few quiet graves — simple wooden crosses marking just a first name, age, and…
July 26, 2025 Victorian Cemetery Walk and Talk New Folkestone Society – Event Report We were thrilled to welcome over 60 attendees to our recent Victorian Cemetery Walk and Talk, held in…
July 7, 2025 Caring For Gods Acre: 3 Lovely Quizes School holidays are on their way, and we have produced some useful resources for parents and holiday club leaders to use in churchyards There…
July 4, 2025 Echoes of the Past: What the Headstones Can Tell Us This Saturday’s cemetery workgroup kept to the shade — it was a warm day, and hotter weather was forecast. My partner and I made…
June 13, 2025 Alfred Samuel & Leonora Maria Rowcroft Robinson Rob Moody with research by FOFC members Carole M & James S. An unmarked grave by the road in Folkestone Old Cemetery made Carole…
June 4, 2025 Collision Of The Ironclads This account was posted in the London Illustrated of 1878 Though such an appalling accident as that which happened last Friday morning to the…
