Thursday 29 May 2009

Team: Peter, Carolyn and lots of young people from the "Hope 08 Urban Adventure" group http://www.bigdeal.org.uk/Group/Group.aspx?id=54419

In the morning, Peter and Carolyn continued with our work to clear the flat grave stones in the B section.

In the afternoon we were joined by the young people. The City Council had provided a large skip which was filled with fly-tipped rubbish and rubble mainly from the area of the churchyard near to the bottom of the vicarage garden. This included some huge reinforced concrete fence posts which took 8 or more of the volunteers to move - they carried them on their shoulders - a very impressive sight!

The long term project for this area, which does not contain any graves, is to create a natural (not manicured) memorial garden.

Thanks to the generosity of members of the congregation, we were able to provide the volunteers with sandwiches, biscuits, cakes, tea and coffee after their very hard work. Thanks to Chris, Greta and Eric for making the drinks and serving the food.