Woking Visit 2008
Day 1 started well with a visit to the Brookwood Cemetery. The cemetery was opened in November 1854, and was the largest in the world. It was originally called the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery. The Brookwood Cemetery Society is a voluntary group dedicated to the preservation, history and appreciation of Brookwood Cemetery. The Brookwood Cemetery Society has left the National Federation of Cemetery Friends following its publication of a misleading and inaccurate item on Brookwood Cemetery.
There is also a military cemetery section close by which we also visited that is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as it is now known, working tirelessly to maintain the gardens of remembrance, built to remember the dead of any conflict, around the world.
Their graveyards are not just for burying the dead but real gardens with fragrance and presence tended by skilled gardeners.
These gardeners, as a unit of 900, are the unsung heroes of these special gardens but occasionally, just like the case of Bryan Smith, whom we had the good fortune to meet, 39 years a gardener at the Brookwood Cemetery who was awarded an MBE, they are justly rewarded for their service to our symbols of freedom.
Our evenings pleasure was to take us to a gastronomic experience at The Anchor next to Pyrford Lock, but before doing so, we just had to see Hazels new kitchen!
What a sun-kissed delight it was to behold and that was just the cupboard doors!
Hazel slightly to the left in the new kitchen.
Hazel slightly to the right in the new kitchen.
Hazel slightly less tall.
Still ever so slightly less tall!
Michael winds the handle on a bird box?
Master of all he surveys
Bridge over the River Wey!
Peace and tranquility
Time now to leave the river Wey and head for Wey House and some serious drinking! Ooh, my head next day, never, never again!!!!!