Day: 18 September 2023

Ocklynge Cemetery Eastbourne

SPOTLIGHT: The volunteers who honour the dead 

The tombstones, crucifixes, angels and inscriptions slowly emerge from the creeping ivy and smothering foliage as if in a fairy story.  What looks like a bank of overgrown shrubs becomes a row of stone memorials, marking lives, families, connections, history.  “I just find it really satisfying to clean them up, research people’s lives and find […]

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