All’s spick and span as volunteers get to work on church graveyard
ON Saturday, July 15 a group of Holy Trinity Bickerstaffe church members completed a major tidy-up of their graveyard.
The current graveyard has been in use since 1844.
The graveyard is maintained during the year by a combination of a contract gardener and church members.
The graveyard will be full by the end of the year.
The new extension at the back of the current graveyard was consecrated early this year.
A lot of vegetation was cleared, trees and bushes also trimmed, and lots of leaves, twigs and litter were removed.
During the morning the first grave used in the churchyard in 1843 was revealed after tidying.