A lot seems to be happening at Sidmouth Cemetery… Next Thursday morning, Ed Dolphin of the Arboretum will be offering a guided tour of the trees, both native and exotic: A guided tree walk around the Cemetery: 16th May – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries That’s because […]
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A guided tree walk around the Cemetery: 16th May
The trees in and around Sidmouth Cemetery are looking magnificent. Ed Dolphin, of the Arboretum, has sent in some beautiful photos he took this time four years ago, including: Variegated Tulip Tree: May 2020: Ed Dolphin Trees in leaf and in flower around the Cemetery […]
The CSC working party meeting up with the District Council’s Streetscene team
Last week, the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries steering group and members of the working party were handed a very welcome piece of kit by the chair of the Town Council’s environment committee: Tabards for Cemetery volunteers – thanks to the Town Council – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]
Tabards for Cemetery volunteers – thanks to the Town Council
Earlier today, the chair of the Town Council’s Environment Cttee presented the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party with a set of very impressive high-visibility vests. Here is Cllr Ian Barlow shaking hands with CSC volunteer Jenny Ware, with some of her colleagues lined up in […]
Trees in leaf and in flower around the Cemetery
The trees in Sidmouth Cemetery are beginning to open – coming into flower and coming into leaf. Here are some fine specimens captured by Ed Dolphin from May 2020 – and looking beyond these three trees and at the Cemetery itself, it shows what can […]
Resources to help cherish our cemeteries
There are lots of resources online to help the Cherishing Sidmouth’s Cemeteries project move ahead. And much of these have already been accumulated on the CSC’s ever-expanding website: Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries – A Vision Group for Sidmouth initiative There are some excellent other places to […]
Beautiful burial grounds – of ancient meadows and caring for hedgehogs
There’s a national project aimed at cherishing our cemeteries and churchyards – and it’s doing well in East Devon: Caring for God’s Acre – in East Budleigh – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries A year ago, they concluded a specific project – with the results here: Celebrating […]
“What a difference a few hours of volunteering can make!”
Ian Gregory, chair of the Vision Group for Sidmouth, has the privilege of putting together a monthly piece for the Herald – and this month he focussed on the work happening at Sidmouth Cemetery – and what a difference it’s making! Volunteers transform Sidmouth’s neglected […]
Spring flowers popping up around the Cemetery
“Clearing up” around Sidmouth Cemetery means “giving growing things a bit of breathing space” – for example, pulling out the bullying three-cornered leek and allowing things like celandine to stretch in the sun. Here’s a photo from this week’s working party by Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries […]
“Sidmouth Cemetery is looking so much better”
It’s quite impressive how Sidmouth Cemetery has been transformed over the last few weeks – and that’s not the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries group saying that! Here’s a very positive note sent after the CSC working party session yesterday [Thursday 29th] morning. It’s from a key […]