Visitors

As well as attending services people have different reasons these days for walking or driving along Church Lane; for instance, the cleaning and the arranging of flowers are done by a rota of village volunteers and the churchyard is maintained by a group of volunteer gardeners, who carefully leave the edges of the property in a natural state for the benefit of wildlife.

Entries from our Visitor’s Book covering the period from 1978 to 2003 show that a good number came to ‘find the grave of an old Digger mate’ and lament the fact that there are war graves of so many Australians from 1914–18 who died ‘so far from homersquo; .

Some came for practical reasons.

Stonemasons and plumbers note the repairs they have made to the fabric of the church and brass-rubbers express their pleasure at the excellence of the memorial brass. Workmen from the Whitechapel Foundry recorded the removal and re-hanging of the old bells after their re-tuning, together with the hanging of the new sixth bell in 1980.

Bell ringers also noted their visits, including the occasion when they range a full peal in anticipation of the late Queen Mother’s birthday in August 2001

B.P.
March 2005

Content last updated
13 June 2006

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