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…
October 24, 2022 White Garden Plan As with most gardens – the White Garden is a work in progress, there has been planting throughout 2022 although the very hot months…
September 26, 2022 Baby Loss Awareness Week – event Baby Loss awareness week is coming up 9th to 15th October. To mark this significant time and to raise awareness of the White Garden…
August 19, 2022 5 Steps Toward Healing When Grieving After losing a loved one, you may experience powerful and even paralyzing emotions of sadness, despair, and loneliness. You feel numb and unmotivated to…
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…
May 23, 2022 Book: Grave Stories of Murder, Mystery & Misfortune: Uncovering real stories from the Old Folkestone Cemetery I wrote this book some months ago – and then it sat there – until at last I decided to get it published and…
