[Discuss] Mill Rd Cemetery

[Joanna Gordon Clark]

Mill Road Cemetary was an old favourite of mine, and still is.  Love the trees, 
and the overgrown shrubs, but rather lament the destruction wreaked by people on 
the gravestones.  Would like to do a new survey of the cemetary, logging where 
each grave is, as best one can, and the names on them.  Am not entirely 
disinterested, as my cousin's grave is there, she being a still born twin - the 
other one survived - born at the Nursing Home that has now become the Youth 
Hostel, in abotu 1944.  Very sad

Re benches, yes it would be good to have some new ones in there;  perhaps we 
could raise some funds and have a bench made  by an individual out of old pieces 
of wood, and get the council or whoever is responsibel for those places to agree 
to having the bench set up.  I imagine that we would need to be mindful of 
the mowers needs in the placing of the bench. 

Following on Anne Garvey's comment re bike racks, I have always wanted to take a 
photo of the sign in the Oxfam shop window on Sidney Sussex street - it reads 
something like OXFAM, and i beleive there is a recycling, or at least green 
message with it, and underneath.  NO BIKES
Rather funny.
       Joanna 




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From: GARVEY ANNE <annemgarvey at ntlworld.com>
To: SOS Cambridge discussion list <discuss at soscambridge.org.uk>
Sent: Mon, 14 March, 2011 10:48:19
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Mill Rd Cemetery

We certainly should find out what is happening to amenities like this. 

My concern everywhere in Cambridge is the lack of bike racks. There just aren't 
any - only fierce notices posted by shops telling you not to lean your bike 
against their establishment, quite reasonable if there was anywhere else. In the 
Market Square the other day I could find absolutely nowhere on the far 
non-Guildhall side to leave a bike and the Guildhall ones were all full. I hear 
rumours about there being a big Council scheme in the offing - I wonder if 
anyone has any news.

Meanwhile I do think that chasing up missing features like benches is vital.


AG


On 13 March 2011 23:58, Simon Norton <S.Norton at dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

An posting not about trees but about a product that's made from them, relevant
>to our core objective of improving the quality of our open spaces.
>
>This morning I was walking through Mill Rd Cemetery en route to the railway
>station. With plenty of time before my train I wanted a rest. I am sure that
>there used to be a bench somewhere on the footpath on the west side (on the
>direct route between Norfolk St and Mill Rd) but it seemed to have disappeared.
>Anyone know why ?
>
> Simon Norton
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