Tree Plaque - Oliver William-Powlett Westpoint Arena Exeter

Over the weekend we visited the Creative Stitches and Craft function at Westpoint Arena in Exeter. You can read all about it HERE, HERE and HERE. As we were leaving and walking back to the car, I spotted the following tree plaque.

Grave Markers at the Jersey War Tunnels

Recently while on holiday on the beautiful Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands we visited the Underground War Tunnels. You can read about it -

Part One, 

Part Two, 

Part Three 

Part Four

As the visit of the tunnels drew to a close. I spotted this.

Grave marker of US Airman, Lieutenant E.G.J. Pallantine whose aircraft was shot down

Memorial at Corbiere Lighthouse, Jersey

Memorial Seat Plaque, Maritime Museum, St. Helier, Jersey

Having been into the Occupation Tapestry, housed at the Maritime Museum in St. Helier we came out and sat for a few minutes to get our thoughts together. As I got up I spotted this plaque on the back of the seat.

Seat located immediately opposite the Maritime Museum in St. Helier Jersey

St Helier War Memorial, Jersey,Channel Islands

Memorial Plaque - Albert Dock, St Helier, Jersey

Fixed to a wall at Albert Docks, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
it reads:

"On the evening of 28th June 1940
Heinkel aircraft of the German Air Force
Attacked the St Helier harbour
in an attempt to test
the defence of the Island

This plaque was unveiled
on 28th June 1990
in Memory of
Mr John Philip Mauger
Mr Harold Frederick Hobbs
Mr Robert Bunting Fallis
Mr Godfrey William Adolp Coleman
Mr Leslie Charles Henry Bryan
Mr Edward Henry Ferrand
Mr William Charles Moody
Mr Arthur William Parr
Who lost their lives as a result of this raid"

Scarcliffe Churchyard, Derbyshire

On a visit up to the North East of England we stopped at Scarcliffe to see what graveyard remains there were to reflect the Goucher presence in the village.

We found three graves. Two of them are photographed here.

Grave of Henry & Sarah Jane Goucher

In Loving Memory of
Our Dear Parents
Henry GOUCHER
Died 1st December 1919 aged 69
And Sarah Jane GOUCHER
Died 3rd November 1941 aged 86
Reunited

In Loving Memory of
Lucy Ellen
Beloved wife of James GOUCHER
Died Oct 21st 1835 aged 50
Resting where no shadows fall

The third grave we found was of Ellen and John Goucher. The photograph has been too poor to reproduce with clarity, but a transcription of it is here

In

Loving Memory 

of

Ellen, the beloved wife of

John GOUCHER

who died February 5th 1885

aged 60 years

Also John

Husband of the above

Who died January 14th 1908

Aged 83 years

Blessed are the dead which die in the lord

Teignmouth War Memorial

Memorial Books

Last weekend, my mother in law sent us a selection of photographs of the memorial headstone of my father in law. I say memorial headstone as my father in law was cremated and my mother in law has retained the ashes. There is also an entry in the memorial book for the 12th June which displays the following entry.

So, can you believe all you read? In this case definitely not!

The entry in the book (above) is actually incorrect. for issues that I won't go into, the names of the children from my father in law's first marriage are missing. There is also an addition of my sister in law who was adopted by my father in law and is the daughter of my mother in law from her first marriage.  The grandchildren are also incorrect, as a nephew is missing  because he is deceased, where as I would have added his name followed by (dec).

I can explain all the omissions and additions, but what of future generations? How would they know?

My husband registered the death of his father because my mother in law was in hospital at the time. Had she or my sister in laws registered the death there would again have been inaccuracies. The death was registered in Scotland and part of that process is to name previous spouses. My mother in law would have been furious and possibly argued the point and my sister in laws would not have known the details. The death certificate therefore, thanks to my obsession with family history contains the full and accurate details.

St Mary's Church Foulness Island, Essex

I was alerted to the following for sale information.

Here are the details from the website (I have copied the data below for the benefit of preservation!)

"Foulness Church is situated centrally on the on Foulness island and surrounded entirely by open views to the horizon. The land however is controlled by the MOD and has a population of about 160. It is a drive of a few miles from the gate, across MOD land to the Church. The Church has been closed for some years and is now in need of considerable remedial repairs to re-instate it to a usable condition. Any repairs will need to be prior approved by the listed buildings authority. 

You should also be aware of the following which we understand to be the situation regarding access and utilities:

• The public rights of access to the island are subject to tides and the range byelaws. When the tide is out and the flags are down, there is vehicular access along a byway from Wakering Stairs to Foulness Island along The Broomway (tidal) and then across the island. The MOD have said that long-term arrangements to use the private road can be agreed.

• Access to water supply will need to be addressed with the supplier and contracts agreed as presently this is not operational.

• The access to an electrical supply has been suspended and the cost of reinstating the supply is not known. The supply is off a private network managed by the MOD.

• We do not believe there is an existing connection to the main sewer.
If a connection is made, the MOD will need to be made aware of the plan first as there are vital services in the area."

The selling price is £9,000 and is a bargain for someone with the finances to put the Church into a liveable condition and the will to plough their way through the red tape!

Disclaimer - I am not connected with the current owner or the selling agent.
Abbreviation - MOD is Military of Defence.

Teignmouth Cemetery, Devon

Not being native to Teignmouth we rarely visit the local cemetery. As I plan to photograph the graves for this blog we headed up to the cemetery last night to see how it has fared in the last 10 years, which was when we last visited.

I think it is fair to say that we were quite shocked of the deterioration of the grave stones. We photographed some, mainly general views and a few close up shots, some of which appear below and the rest are located on Flickr.

Devon Family History Society has transcribed the gravestone and a fiche of the transcriptions is available. Just as well given the deterioration.

Teignmouth Cemetery, a set on Flickr.

Mules Park at Eastcliffe

Inspired by an article in the local paper about Mules Park we decided to explore. In the time we had lived here we had never heard of it. We had a lovely walk, despite the weather being miserable and Alfie made lots of new friends!

Teignmouth Post Friday 27th May 2011

As we started to walk round keeping an eye on Alfie we spotted memorials at the bottom of seats and on the backs of some of the park benches.

Click HERE to view the complete set of photos