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…
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…
February 1, 2025 M is for Memorials Some of the oldest and most impressive monuments, from the pyramids at Giza to the passage grave at Newgrange in Ireland, are memorials for…
January 25, 2025 1809 – Teenage wife goes to sea with captain Mary Sophia, 15 years old, sailed down the Thames with husband James Collins, 24, outward bound for Portugal. The couple, from Holborn, hoped their…
