To all our volunteers: March 2021 Hello to all our volunteers. I hope you are safe and well, and feeling more optimistic with the signs of lockdown lifting ahead. It…
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Charles Barker Howdill 1863-1941
The first child ever cremated at Lawnswood was Dorothy Howdill who died of scarlet fever in 1905: she was the daughter of local architect and photographer Charles B. Howdill and…
Action Day December 2020
ACTION DAY DECEMBER 2020 The December Action Day took place on 5th December and was for existing volunteers only, to make sure we were able to control the numbers attending. It…
Action Day Volunteers Up-Date November 2020
Action Day Volunteers November up-date September saw the return of our volunteering activity at the cemetery and we were delighted to be back at work and able to see everyone…
Action Day Volunteers August 2020
August 2020 – Action Day Volunteers Hi everyone! Here we are again another month on and still no date for a return to Action Days. I know from Nick that the Council…
Hello to all Action Day Volunteers – July 2020
Hello again to all our Action Day volunteers on 4th July 2020 Another month has gone by – I don’t know how it goes so quickly! I hope everyone is…
Hello to all Action Day Volunteers – June 2020
Hello to all Action Day volunteers- June 2020 Another month has gone by: I don’t know how it goes so quickly given the circumstances we are in! I hope you…
Cedric Arnold Wilkinson 1897 – 1918
The Greatest Raid! Cedric Arnold Wilkinson was born in Leeds in 1897. His father was a travelling salesman and the family lived in Abyssinia Terrace which was situated just off…
Action Day volunteers May 2020
To our Action Day volunteers- I am thinking about you all as we would have been meeting up today, 2nd May, to work in the cemetery. How much I am…
Hello to Action Day volunteers April 2020
Hello Action Day volunteers – this is just to say hi and to hope that you are all keeping well and managing to keep your spirits up in these difficult days.…