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With Roy and his brother giving the Bier a colourful red and green makeover, we thought we’d use it as a cart for the Christmas wreaths we sell in November and December to raise money for the group. It really looks the part…
Peace Garden Sometime in the 1980s, a fire ripped through the South chapel and destroyed its roof, door, windows and interior. The only remaining remnants were the empty shell of the building, some of the floor tiles, and a fully intact tower. The Friends had already decided that, with money being a very big issue and the opposing chapel being more structurally secured, it was best to leave this one as an open space and adapt it into something else. So we decided on a memorial garden, which we would entitle the ‘Peace Garden’. Our efforts began when we applied for the Jubilee People’s Millions grant, which we were shortlisted for by ITV Calendar News. Our plea was to be filmed and aired on the 6pm news, where we were up against other groups for votes to win the cash prize. Unfortunately, though we did come close, it wasn’t close enough. Another group won over us and were awarded the money for their project. However, being on the TV sparked interest from a wealthy anonymous donor who was willing to give us the whole sum. For some reason, all contact fell silent after a few weeks of communication, and we heard nothing afterwards. Still determined, we decided to take to the streets to fundraise, and apply for small grants to slowly work towards renovating the chapel. Soon enough, we had enough to start the work. We began by removing the debris and overgrowth from the inside and seeing what we had left to work with. We had no idea how much of the structure was safe, or what we would find inside. The only thing left from the original interior, apart from the bricks making up the walls, was a large section of the tiled floor which was revealed when we cleared away the dirt.
Page 2 and 3: Friends of Wombwell Cemetery Welcom
Page 4 and 5: Friends with Friends As a Friends g
Page 6 and 7: Guest Book In the Community Hub we
Page 8 and 9: Baby Memorial 2 The second, smaller
Page 12 and 13: The walls and the tower were made s
Page 14 and 15: We then installed four memorial ben
Page 16 and 17: Community Hub For almost fifteen ye
Page 18 and 19: We found our architect, Sean, and w
Page 20 and 21: Strong fire doors were fitted in th
Page 22 and 23: What now? The Community Hub is open
Page 24 and 25: Fundraising & Sustainability Fundra
Page 26 and 27: Wreaths In November/December time,
Page 28 and 29: Grants & Donations Heritage Lottery
Page 30 and 31: Wombwell & District Men’s 701 Cha
Page 32 and 33: History We enjoy researching the hi
Page 34 and 35: Second Lieutenant Alfred Edward Fla
Page 36: The two chapels have not really cha
Page 39 and 40: Each year is a bigger and better tu
Page 41 and 42: Birds and Bats To keep our birds ha
Page 43 and 44: Although we are still waiting for t
Page 45 and 46: Read All About It! We regularly cro
Page 47 and 48: ITV Calendar News In 2011, we appli
Page 49 and 50: Social Media We have made sure that
Page 51 and 52: We update our followers with the di
Page 53 and 54: We love to chat to other Friends gr
Page 55 and 56: And the Award Goes To… Queen’s
Page 57 and 58: 2016/17 our group picked up the ‘
Page 59 and 60: The National Award for Voluntary En
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A Forgotten Soldier Recently we dis
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Around the Cemetery The Seasons Win
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