Join us in recording the inscriptions and details of the memorials in the Old Cemetery on Longden Road Shrewsbury and help create a valuable social history archive of the lives of Shrewsbury's residents from the 1850s on. More information and booking link
This session is for getting together to add the inscriptions and photographs from the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries of Key Hill and Warstone Lane to their respective digital maps creating a digital archive as part of the Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Ground Project. Volunteers have been out in the cemetery recording the inscriptions and here we are […]
Memorial recording in Brandwood End Cemetery, noting down the inscriptions and photographing memorials to add to the digital map, creating a searchable archive for the cemetery. Further information and booking link.
A practical session noting the inscriptions and details of the memorials of Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. More information and booking link
Save the date! More information to follow…. Join the Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Grounds Project and local experts in trying to identify as many species in the churchyard as possible. Children’s activities available.
Over the summer volunteers have been noting down memorial inscriptions in Brandwood End Cemetery. We now have over 200 records to add, with photographs, to the digital map. More Information & Booking Link
Over the summer volunteers have been noting down memorial inscriptions in Handsworth Churchyard. We now have records to add, with photographs, to the digital map. This session will take place at the Handsworth Library where we will work together to add the records to the online map. If you have a lap top that is […]
Join us in recording the inscriptions and details of the memorials in the Old Cemetery on Longden Road Shrewsbury and help create a valuable social history archive of the lives of Shrewsbury's residents from the 1850s on. More information and booking link
Sarah Gibson is coming to do a walk and a chat about the Swifts. She has written a book called Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky Rob Rowe is running a session on identifying wildflowers and talking about wildflower folklore Poet Jean Atkin exploring poems about nature and […]
Memorial recording in Warstone Lane Cemetery, noting down the inscriptions and photographing memorials to add to the digital map, creating a searchable archive for the cemetery. Booking link
Memorial recording sessions in Handsworth churchyard working with the extensive survey completed by the Handsworth Historical society in the 1980s. Further information & Booking link
This session is for getting together to add the inscriptions and photographs from the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries of Key Hill and Warstone Lane to their respective digital maps creating a digital archive as part of the Celebrating Birmingham's Burial Ground Project. Volunteers have been out in the cemetery recording the inscriptions and here we are […]
Anne Belgrave, an artist, will be doing a 30minute performance about bird song. Rob Rowe running a session on identifying wildflowers and talking about wildflower folklore Poet Jean Atkin exploring poems about nature and creating tiny books for people to take home Tom Hayek who will be moth trapping the night before will do a […]