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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day5: Tidy
All #Graveyards fight nature to stay tidy; sometimes overgrowth of the nature we encourage for #Wildlife, sometimes the unruly weather.
Below, debris from a storm and two before and after pics.
St John's Church Graveyard, #Nelson, Lancashire.
Our call to arms flyer to locals for a graveyard tidy, text equesting volunteers to help us do a general graveyard tidy, over an image of the graveyard depicting an early spring scene looking towards Pendle Hill over graves surrounded by long yellowed grass and last years wildflowers gone to seed. A blue play tile, blown into the graveyard after a windy day from the houses nearby. It has fallen on flat unmarked grassy lawn, strewn with last years leaves. This area contains the the remains of many children who died during the numerous flu, diphtheria and meningitis outbreaks in the town in the late 19th century. After a graveyard tidy the graveyard is visible with organised aisles and rows of memorials. Before a graveyard tidy, the same area as the previous picture with a lot of overgrowth, bushes, high grass, buttercups and sorrel obscuring all but three memorials.
October 5, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day4: Heart
I wonder how many times you could do that again, two in one?!
October 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day4: Heart

This one broke my heart, a lovely verdant oakling, enthusiastically reaching for the sky one day, the next this.
Since there isn't a nearby #Oak, I presume a squirrel nut stash was responsible it growing there.
#Grave maintenance.
#Wildlife
October 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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So the #31DaysOfGraves and the #31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition Edition.

Two lists, two challenges!
October 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day3:Overgrown

St John's Church #Graveyard, Marsden, #Nelson, #Lancashire.

I do love this picture, but it really is overgrown.

Is your surname Sarginson? Is this a relative?

Alice, Henrietta, Scarr and Thomas Scarr Sarginson, also Herbert Sarginson.
October 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day2: Died Abroad

St John's Church #Graveyard, Marsden, #Nelson, #Lancashire.

William Hill Dickson, Melbourne, Australia
Died March 3rd 1876 aged 50 years
October 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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#31DaysofGraves #ScottishGraveThoughts edition
Day1: Angel

Since you insist!

Gabriel.
October 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM