February 4, 2023 A Slow Start And here we are in 2023, well technically by the time I got around to writing this it is February 2023! The weather has…
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…