West Lea Cemetery.....update:

[Malcolm Robinson]

 

Happy to pay the necessary earlier this year to turn the old dilapidated building at West Lea Cemetery into a suitable base for the Friends of West Lea Cemetery.

 

Instead of making their Xmas wreaths in their respective kitchens and having pine needles and holly all over their houses to pick up they can now use this.

 

It took well over a year to sort out with the legals themselves taking for ever, but it been worth all the time and effort put into it.

Anyone visiting the cemetery and the lasses are there just say “Hi”, I’m sure they will be pleased to chat and I know anyone wanting to join them in their quest to make this cemetery the very best it can be will be very warmly welcomed.

 

And a big round of thanks for all the help off NCC cemetery staff!

[Canny lass]

Now that's what I call recycling! Well done, Malcolm.

 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

@Malcolm Robinson - as there aren't a lot of Bedlington residents use this group I posted a bit of your comment plus a couple of the photos on the Bygone Bedlington FB group and 94 members in the past 8hrs like what's been done :- 

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

The responses to the posting on the Bygone Bedlington group = 

• George Weatheritt

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  • John Edwards
• So no longer used by the grave diggers ?

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    John Edwards - as far as I know it's now just a base for the 'Friends of West Lea Cemetery' :-https://www.bedlington.co.uk/.../9346-west-lea.../...

     

    

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    John Edwards
    • used to pester the lives out of the poor blokes working there when we were kids 

      Sarah Gibson
    • John Edwards no I run the friends of westlea cemetery group its now in our name. It's taken 20 months to secure and then apply for funding to turn it into a usable space we made wreaths from it this year and sold them , profits off almost 1300 we will be putting into the cemetery this coming year.. we will be based there from now on .not in my kitchen haha ... and help maintain, litter pick, cut back undergrowth extra all year as well as hoping to make mothers day Easter things to carry on funding further projects we have a Facebook page the friends of westlea cemetery group

      Sarah Gibson
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       the old bench and fireplace is still there
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    Caoline Dobinson
• Great we popped in to chat to the the lady who was making the wreaths remember this building very well glad it’s now in use well done everyone

  Jackie Connell
• That's awesome  Because it was an eye sore thanks to all the friends at the cemetery  for keeping the cemetery tidy and it’s only right they have got somewhere to go and have a place to get together with a cuppa

  Robert Cox
• Is that the grave diggers hut

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    Robert Cox - so I've been informed but as I was a Bedlington station lad it's not a place we used to play around when we were kids. This is the inside of the building now :-

     

    

     

     

    • Robert Cox
    • Alan Edgar thanks

      Robert Cox
    • Alan Edgar yep that's it
  • Sarah Gibson

    Robert Cox yes two rooms
• Kay Jeffrey

  Mick Hedley show mam this… we were there last week x

   

  • James Mole
• So sad to see the cemetery in such a state, my dad was sextant there many years ago, he took pride in keeping the law ed grave areas neat and tidy, flower boarders down the driveway, enhanced the beauty of the resting place for those laid to rest there… 

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  • Jennifer Ward

    James Mole thats why we set up the group so we can start to get the cemetery looking nice again. We are glad to have more volunteers as our group is very small at the moment. The more helpers we get the better xx

    James Mole
    • Jennifer Ward HI, you and your fellow volunteer's are to be commended, surely the local authority must take some responsibility for the upkeep of the Cemetery.

      Jennifer Ward
    • James Mole unfortunately it is an ongoing battle to get anything done x

      Maret Smith
• My parking space when I visit the cemetry

  Pauline Thompson
• That’s great x

  • Susan Ibbetson
• Brilliant job 

  Julia Ann Mileham
• That's good

   

   

  • Davey Short
• A big well done to Mick Stevenson from JMS for his great work.https://www.facebook.com/JMSPropertyServices/

   

  

   

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  • Robert Cox
• I went a while ago and couldn't get the wheelchair though the long grass

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Some of the info posted on the JMS Property Service FB page :-

 

[Maggie/915]

Well done Malcolm .

[_pauls]

Good to see it looking so smart. I haven't been in the cemetery for a while as my fitness regime lapsed but when I walked through the other day it looked great.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

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Edited June 3 by Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

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