It is with great sadness that we are informing our supporters that Kate Vernon has passed away. Kate was a founder member of the Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery and spent…
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Action Day- 4th March
Our next Action Day is Saturday 4th March 2023 !Our aim is to help keep the cemetery looking as good as it can do for visitors and in respect for…
Autumn leaves
Why not visit the cemetery as the woodlands turn golden and brown and the leaves begin to fall ? Cemeteries are havens for flora and fauna, and Lawnswood, as the…
Lawnswood Columbarium
The Columbarium is a Grade 11 listed building and was designed by Col. A E Kirk and completed by Messrs Kirk and Tomlinson in 1933. It is a single storey…
Happy New Year
We wish all our supporters, members and volunteers a very Happy New Year and let us hope for better days ahead in 2022. We had our first Action Day of…
Happy Christmas to all our supporters
Wishing all our members and volunteers a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year. Thank you for all your support, whether through your membership fees, volunteering at our Action…
Notes on Joseph Hepworth
JOSEPH HEPWORTH 12.5.1834– 17.10.1911 Lord Mayor 1906 This is the only rags to riches story today! Does the name mean anything to anyone? Joseph Hepworth & Sons Ltd was a…
December Action Day
We used our 4th December Action Day to celebrate Christmas and our wonderful volunteers! We did manage some work as well, cutting back self seeding shrubs in the 1910 section…
Remembrance Sunday
We laid a wreath at the War Memorial to remember all those buried, have ashes or names placed on family graves in the cemetery, who died in WW1 or WW2.
10th Anniversary
October 2021 saw the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery. We had a little celebration at our last Action Day to mark the occasion!