St Peter's Parish News
Thursday 1 January 1970
Spring has sprung in the Cemetery!
It’s wonderful to see spring in our historic cemetery on Rectory Lane (just behind the Rex cinema). Bright yellow daffodils are sprouting amid the Victorian memorials, and the upper cemetery is carpeted with wild primroses. The Rectory Lane Cemetery spring newsletter is full of exciting reports of wildlife activity – the Bumblebee Conservation Trust have been tracking hairy-footed flower bees and buff-tailed bumblebee, while the Hertfordshire Natural History Society has been reporting on sightings of rare hawfinches, Britain’s largest finch! The cemetery has welcomed a host of new volunteers to adopt and plant out neglected graves, and local Duke of Edinburgh students have been working really hard to bag compost for people to use in their gardens (there’s still some left if you’d like a bag!). There’s also a feature on Richard Philip Cooper, one of the famous Cooper’s Sheep Dip family who is buried in the family vault in Rectory Lane Cemetery.
Read the newsletter online for all this and a range of exciting events coming up this spring:
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