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 […]
Author: JW
“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 […]
Find memorials in Sidmouth Cemetery online with ‘Find a Grave’
The Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries website is not only about recording the considerable efforts of the busy volunteers: Working parties – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries It’s also about recording the personal stories and the growing information about the memorials: Graves and links to records – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries There […]
Early Spring 2024 newsletter
Welcome to the latest newsletter from the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries project! Early Spring 2024: work done so far: In just a few weeks, the CSC working party have already made a huge difference to Sidmouth Cemetery – with a few valiant volunteers braving the weather […]
Cemeteries and churchyards: ‘places for the living’
A Devon botanist was also a Devon priest – and he showed how churchyards can embrace beautiful things: “God’s Botanist” – Revd. William Keble Martin – Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries The East Devon District Council have created a charming churchyard: St Gregory’s Seaton: balancing low grass […]
The Sidmouth Scouts lend a hand!
It’s great that other groups are working with Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries – and on Saturday afternoon a group of Scout Explorers, leaders and family members had a working party concentrating on the area just south of the Chapels: Thanks to the Scouts – Cherishing Sidmouth […]
Collecting pictures and stories of the monuments at Sidmouth Cemetery
Are you interested in adding to a database of photographs and histories of the people associated with Sidmouth Cemetery? Ideas have been shared about looking at the cultural side of the Cemetery, for example doing more on the ‘monumental’ side of the historic site – […]
Green and trees and sky from Sidmouth Cemetery
“We are definitely generating interest from people wanting to help!” says Amanda O’Carroll, Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries steering group member and working party volunteer. Below is a photo she took this morning of a very full dumpy bag, filled by volunteers – but first, a couple […]