by FoHPC | Nov 30, 2016 | 2016
Yesterday we met with local leaders of the Army Cadets (C Company). They are keen to get their cadets involved in activities at Hyde Park Cemetery. Together with representatives from the cemetery’s owner, Doncaster Council, we identified several horticultural...
by FoHPC | Nov 15, 2016 | 2016
The first image, below, shows the Cross of Sacrifice after its recent cleaning by the Victoria Cross Trust and displaying the poppy wreath, which we placed for this year’s Remembrance Sunday. Sadly, in the days leading up to Remembrance Sunday, a person or...
by FoHPC | Nov 13, 2016 | 2016
On 13 November 1916 William Webb MC MM received the citation for his Military Cross, awarded for gallantry during the latter days of the Battle of the Somme. Today, members of his family paid tribute to him at his graveside. The grave has recently been restored by the...
by FoHPC | Oct 30, 2016 | 2016
The former cemetery Lodge is looking fantastic, thanks to the money and dedication invested in it by Adrian Welch. Interior fitting out is continuing, but the exterior works are substantially complete. The Lodge will soon provide high quality domestic accommodation,...
by FoHPC | Oct 18, 2016 | 2016
Our colleagues from Victoria Cross Trust have helped us with a number of tasks within Hyde Park Cemetery over the past couple of years. For example, they cleaned the stonework for Patrick Stirling’s grave restoration in 2015. Yesterday, the Victoria Cross Trust...
by FoHPC | Oct 10, 2016 | 2016
When Hyde Park Cemetery’s former Lodge and entrance arch were bought by Adrian Welch, of Adrian Welch Glass & Glazing, in May 2014, the Lodge was it an extremely poor state. Although a temporary roof had been installed ten years earlier, the stonework was...
