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May 5, 2021

Finding Richard And Maria, A Good Morning’s Work.

We often get asked by distant relatives to locate their family grave in the old Folkestone cemetery. These requests come from people here in…

February 19, 2021

Team Effort Found Baby Olives Resting Place

The story starts as told by Jan Holben: As often happens I get an unknown number call me on my mobile. If it’s a…

January 20, 2021

NFCF Newsletter no. 46

https://mcusercontent.com/2a34db837d653d5b6e6a4e5e4/files/9367f14b-36b1-4243-9464-a5672cb2c30c/nfcf_newsletter_46a.pdf Shops are closed, some sadly going out of business during the Covid months, libraries and other public buildings are also closed. But cemetery…

November 11, 2020

Machine Gun Corp memorial – Protected and Armistice Day 11/11

Earlier this year, in the early Covid days when news channels and social media were swamped with Pandemic updates news was received that a…

November 10, 2020

National Federation of Cemetery Friends Update

Dear Cemetery Friends There have been many changes in Covid regulations since our last Newsletter and they have varied throughout the UK. Groups have…

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…