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Maintaining & improving Prescot Cemetery & St Mary's Churchyard as a place of beauty that honours Pr

07/11/2026

The poppy displays look amazing! Thank you to today’s team—Durga, Lesley, George, Andy, Ste, Howard, Keith, and Jen.

Yesterday we replaced some of the fallen poppies and today made repairs in situ. The guys tidied the Garden of Rest and we finished with drink and cake in the church.

Thank you to all the people involved in helping create these displays, the time and effort a few years ago has paid dividends for the period of Remembrance.

31/10/2026

We mowed the grass around the BICC Memorial before 'planting' the Poppies. Poppies & poems were attached to the trees along the path and the war graves, which we are aware of, have a poppy cross on them. There was also a lot of leaf blowing, which is a pretty thankless task as this time of year. Many thanks to Andy, George, Ste, Lesley, Jen, Howard, Keith & John.

18/10/2026

More photos from yesterday

17/10/2026

Thank you to today’s volunteers, John, Durga, Ste, George, Jen, Howard, Keith, Lesley and Sue. Today we mowed and strimmed the Garden of Rest and the BICC memorial. The Memorial Garden was mowed. With permission from the CWGC all the war graves were cleaned in the Churchyard with warm soapy water in readiness for Remembrance Sunday. The Sun dial was also cleaned as well as the sandstone stone in the Garden of Rest. More photos will follow.

16/10/2026

The group will be meeting at 1pm at the top of the churchyard, please feel free to come along and help out or have a chat.

09/10/2026

Those interested in our interesting gravestones series can now view #4 on our website by clicking on the following link.

The subject of this fourth gravestone in the series is that of Percy Wallis. It’s not a particularly old gravestone. It is, in fact, two related gravestones which is unusual and it does make a very compelling story for the series.

03/10/2026

Thank you to today’s volunteers.
Durga, Andy, Jen, Howard, Keith, Ian, Mark, Neil and George.
We strimmed the whole of section 7 in the churchyard. Mark continued to level and remove the soil covering some of the headstones and Neil found some more headstones in the cemetery which we need to commemorate with a poppy cross at Remembrance in November. Keith cleaned all the lectern in the churchyard and cemetery.

26/09/2026

Thank you to today’s volunteers, Sue, John, Durga, Ste, Jen, Howard, Keith, Mark and Lesley.
We mowed and strimmed the B I memorial, the Memorial Garden and the Babies Memorial. We also strimmed between the graves at the bottom of the churchyard. Mark continued to remove numerous barrow fulls of soil which have covered lots of graves at the side of the wall by Garden Walk.

19/09/2026

Unfortunately due to today’s weather we won’t me working today. Fingers crossed we will be back next week.

12/09/2026

Thank you to today’s volunteers, John, George, Mark, Keith, Jen, Howard and Andy.
We mowed and strimmed the Garden of Rest, strimmed between the graves in section 2 at the top of the churchyard. We also prepared some wood ready for making some frames to re concrete 2 of the bench bases.

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Manchester Road
Prescot
L341

Website

http://www.prescotcemetery.org.uk/

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