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The Best Epitaph
It isn’t easy to choose the words for an epitaph. The message on a headstone will be read by generations to come, so you’ll want to get things just right. But how can anyone possibly...
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A Walkers’ Walk and a Workers’ Walk
A walk is a walk is a walk…but not necessarily. We’ve just had two very different walks, both of which involved proper walkers. On Sunday 15th September, we once more contributed to the programme for the Bedfordshire...
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Trees, trees, trees
Who would have thought that trees could be such darned clever little beggars? Well, twenty visitors braved the drizzle on Sunday afternoon and had a masterclass in the wonderful world of TREES. Led by Jo Roberts...
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A Flood, Two Dollars and a Mile of Pennies
Quite often, a tragic event prompts people to show the very best of Human Nature; I remember that after the Aberfan disaster of 1966 communities all over the country raised money for that poor Welsh...
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Reverend William Stainton Moses
Who would have thought that a former pupil of Bedford Grammar School might become a spiritualist medium, exponent of levitation, and a founder of the Society of Psychical Research? Perhaps he was a charlatan, but...
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Bedfordshire Walking Festival
Another sunny Sunday afternoon at Foster Hill Road Cemetery, and another big group of visitors. There was around 60 people (plus three small dogs), joining in with our contribution to the Bedfordshire Walking Festival. The...
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Pearl Thomson – Inspirational Teacher
Pearl Clareta Thomson was born on 1st June 1917, in Portland on the island of Jamaica. She was an intelligent girl, but just as important was her natural ability to communicate with others. She had...
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Brave and Bold Walks
This week, after months of hard work and planning, it wasn't just the temperature that broke records at the Cemetery. Record numbers of visitors joined in with 2 walks, highlighting the lives of 13 inspirational,...
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Danuta Gruszczynska-Alasinska – Brave and Bold
It can sometimes be an emotional experience, being at a graveside and reading the words on a stone that has no emotions; the memorial of a young child, or someone who was “accidentally killed” can...
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Mabel Barltrop – Founder of the Panacea Society
Mabel Andrews was born in 1866, into a conventional middle-class London Victorian family, but one with some connections in the literary world, and who became very much steeped in the Anglicanism of the day.