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…
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 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 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…
June 4, 2025 To Commemorate the Sinking of the Grosser Kurfürst, 1878. Honouring the lives lost off the Kent coast on 31 May 1878. Nearly 150 years ago, almost 300 lives were lost when the German…
May 12, 2025 General Sir John Jarvis Bisset C.B. K.C.M.G. & his family John Jarvis Bisset, his daughter Amy Morgan Bisset Master, and his second wife, Frances Hannah Bridge Bisset, are buried together in the western section…
April 10, 2025 Messina Earthquake 1908 – Alice Horn, Annie Kirby and Rev. Charles Huleatt Some years back, when I was looking for wild flowers at Folkestone Old Cemetery, while Carole took photos of damaged memorials, we saw the…
