Visualising Progress

In our newsletter at the end of July I mentioned one of our achievements:

Statistics give the bare facts but, as the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words.  So here are a selection of pictures to give a visualisation of what has been achieved.

Firstly, here is what it looks like over the site as a whole, upto the end of August 2022:

Sections coloured green have been completely cleared by members of FOTC.  But the work doesn’t stop there.  There is always re-growth so the more we clear the more there is also to maintain.

Sections coloured orange are work currently in progress and sections in blue are mixed – parts have been cleared whilst some areas have been left for later, either because they are large open areas of unmarked graves or because they are more “challenging”.

The most recent sections being worked on are those sweeping around from the north-western side of the cemetery and down the length of the eastern side – basically the top of section VV and the whole of section OO.

Here are a few photographs with landscape views of that work.

As we clear areas we discover, of course, who is buried there.  Each section is divided into the individual plots in which people are buried.  The plots are numbered and, for each section, there is a plot map.  The burial records include the plot number for every person buried so these plot maps, in turn, help you in tracking down someone you may be looking for.

Here is an example of section VV showing names of some of those buried there who have clearly identifiable headstones which can be used as a guide to the other plots.

And here is a selection of graves and headstones from the top part of section VV.