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The Common Room / Any Other Friends of Cemetery Groups on here?
« on: Saturday 29 June 13 12:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I and a few other interested parties are about to set up a 'Friends of Tottenham Cemetery' group and I was wondering if there were any other Friends of representatives on here? We are forming for a number of reasons.
a) Haringey Council has just given the contract for maintenance of the Cemetery to a company called 'Dignity Caring Funeral Services' for 50 years and some of us are a little worried about their proposed plans for redevelopment.
b) the site has never been fully catalogued ie. you can get an approximate area of a grave and it number but on site the graves aren't numbered and some gravestone have been moved.
c)As an urban Cemetery the biodiversity of the site is of great importance and needs consideration when redeveloping the area, we have a large lake that is used for nesting, a river and many green corridors used by hundreds of creatures to navigate safely.
So if there are any 'old hands' that have done this sort of thing before or have been doing it for a while, it would be great to hear from you.
Thanks Glynis

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London & Middlesex Resources / Friends of Tottenham Cemetery Founding Meeting
« on: Saturday 29 June 13 12:25 BST (UK)  »
Hello all,
Just wanted to let anyone interested, or with experience that may help, know that a few Tottenham locals are trying to set up a 'Friends' group for Tottenham Cemetery.
We are having a Founding Meeting tomorrow (Sunday 28th June 2013) at 2pm in Bruce Castle Museum, anyone is welcome to come along and help us get started.
Glynis- on behalf of Friends of Tottenham Cemetery

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Graveyards and Gravestones / Friends Of Tottenham Cemetery
« on: Thursday 27 June 13 00:54 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone,
Myself and a few others are setting up a Friends of Tottenham Cemetery (Whitehart Lane, N17) and I thought here might be a good place to a) let interested parties know and b) ask questions that some more experienced people here might have the answers to.
We are due to hold our Founding Meeting on Sunday 30th June, 2pm, Bruce Castle Museum, Lordship Lane, N17 8NU. All welcome-local residents,cemetery visitors, those with family graves, those interested in Tottenham people's history or in green space biodiversity, and members of interested local societies, groups and stakeholders, genealogists.

Please forward to anyone you think may be interested.
If you would like to become a member of a future
Friends of Tottenham Cemetery and to be kept
informed just send an email/pm me.

Obviously we are not set up to be able to answer any specific grave look ups just yet, but I can fill you in on some general info.
The cemetery is now run by a contractor called Dignity Caring Funeral Services, Haringey council have given them the lease for 50 years and they have drawn up some plans to refurbish and maintain the area. All the records are held at Enfield Crematorium http://www.enfield.gov.uk/info/330/death-funerals-cremations/755/cremation which is also now run by Dignity. If members of rootschat think it's appropriate I will keep everyone updated here as to developments in the cemetery. Many of us are worried about the implications of a private firm running our local cemetery and already have concerns about some of the 'improvements' that have taken place.
Look forward to hearing from you all.
Regards Glynis- on behalf of the Friends of Tottenham Cemetery.

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