26 April 2019

A sunny start to the day gradually turned to drizzly rain and sharply cold breezes which made for difficult conditions, but we wrapped up warm and soldiered on at Conistone churchyard today. 

Sheltering from a rain shower

We continued to mark out with flags the burial plots at the south-east end of the churchyard that had no gravestones, and photographed them for the record. 

Unfortunately there are no records to tell us the names of any of those buried in un-marked plots, but the traces of their burial mounds can still be seen.  We also worked on recording, measuring, and photographing some of the surviving gravestones on the south side, including yet more un-marked plots. 

Lynne on the case with the paperwork

The onset of rain drove us to an early lunch which we took in the shelter of the church (I hasten to add, we had sought and been given permission!). 

Sue - never downhearted, no matter the weather!

We managed an hour or so after lunch of more surveying but were beaten by the cold by 2 pm and decided to call it a day.

Jane Lunnon