SI Tunbridge Wells and District

Knitathlon

The club organised a Knitathlon to celebrate International Women's Day.
Blankets were made for Street Sleepers, funky knits were produced to sell.

On the day the public were invited to the local Oxfam shop to help knit a Rainbow scarf 'to make someone happy'. The money raised was shared between Oxfam and Project SIerra. Pictured above is Club member, Paddy Day, teaching local MP Greg Clark how to knit a row in a rainbow scarf .

Cruelly cut off in her bloom?

This stone marks the final resting place of Fanny Louise who died at the age of 36. Hers is just one of the intriguing memorials found under mounds of brambles by the working parties of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery. The Friends were set up by Tunbridge Wells Club eighteen months ago in partnership with the Borough Council to rescue this overgrown Victorian mortuary garden. They now have over 100 members drawn from all sectors of the community and the current Chair is Club member Angela Phillips.

Besides making a vast difference to the appearance of the cemetery and stopping vandalism, the Friends are researching the lives of over 500 of the Victorian worthies buried there. In addition, wild life records have been compiled and partnerships forged with local organisations and schools.

Grants from KCC and the Borough Council will help finance a primary school project on local Victorian history and a programme of repairs to some of the interesting memorials at high risk of collapse.


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