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November 13, 2025

Margaret Care Founder Member of Friends of Folkestone Old Cemetery

Margaret Care was a founder member of the ‘Friends of Folkestone Cemetery’, being at the first meeting when the group’s setting-up was discussed over…

November 11, 2025

Armistice Day

As is customary each year on Armistice Day (11 November), veterans and their families, representatives from the office of the Lord Lieutenant, Folkestone &…

October 20, 2025

Baby Loss Awareness Day

On 15th October, our volunteers marked Baby Loss Awareness Day with a touching tribute in the White Garden at Cheriton Road Cemetery. Around 350…

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…

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…

April 4, 2025

Memorial Spotters Guide

Talking of tombstone quizzes!…… Why not check out this memorials spotters guide and find out about the range of symbols from anchors to doves…

March 25, 2025

Discoveries at the Old Cemetery

Also published in The Hurricane local news publication The Friends have spent 8 years cutting, delving and researching into the stories in the Old…

December 9, 2024

Consultation on the law relating to burial and cremation

Who we are? The Law Commission of England and Wales is an independent body established by statute to make recommendations to government to reform…

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…