activities & events

Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery
Halifax

July 15.2007
Visit to Sheffield Cemetery’s popular promenade theatre event, where mordant stories about the residents were enacted.

July 2006 saw Halifax’s Chartist Festival, the end result of our project to commemorate one of the cemetery’s residents- the weaver and Chartist Benjamin Rushton. A series of events ended with a memorial ceremony beside Rushton’s grave.

Memorial ceremony for Benjamin Rushton at Lister Lane, part of our Chartist Festival.

Andrew, Noirin and Christene read from a contemporary account of Rushton’s funeral, at the ceremony.

CALENDAR FOR VOLUNTEER WORK –

JANUARY …

FEBRUARY …

MARCH …

APRIL …

MAY …

JUNE …

JULY …

AUGUST …

SEPTEMBER… OPEN DAY
OCTOBER …

NOVEMBER … War graves.. Prepare for Remembrance Day.

DECEMBER …

MAINTENANCE TO BE ARRANGED THROUGH CMBC FUNERAL SERVICES SECTION:
Two cuts to all boundary and centre paths – strim down at agreed dates. Remove (collected) rubbish as required. One cut for the whole of the Upper Section of the Cemetery and remove sapling growth – to coincide with September Open Day.

Clear Upper section of cemetery between Chapel and Gibbet Street Wall, remove all ivy, cut down saplings, fill in collapsed graves/vaults and create another accessible area of the cemetery.

July 4 2007
Four volunteers from HBOS adopt the central path.

July 19

Lots more HBOS volunteers working a long hot day clearing brambles.

April 2007
Group outing to York (left) and Leeds Beckett St cemeteries.