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…
July 28, 2022 Family Trust Visit Pioneer Doctors Grave Earlier In July we received an email asking about Edith Mary Pechey Phipson’s as we had posted a short bio of this significant lady…
July 28, 2022 Primary School Children Help With Cemetery Work One of our volunteer group, now headmistress of Morehall Primary School – asked if she could bring a group of children along to the…
February 15, 2022 Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson: Fighting to be a doctor By C.E.Moody, Friends of Folkestone Old Cemetery Mary Edith Pechey-Phipson, one of the ‘Edinburgh Seven’ is buried in Cheriton Road Cemetery. She was one…
January 13, 2022 Alfred Philpott 1869-1929 – a hidden history Alfred Philpott: His is just one of the many unmarked, shared graves, opposite the Morrisons store. He shares it with two baby boys who…
December 1, 2021 Bloody Accident At The Folkestone Lift (1896) An unmarked plot in the old Folkestone cemetery marks the resting place of John Henry Frederick Wessell who died 13th December 1916. John Wessell…
October 21, 2021 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…
