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4 Goodgymers helped their local community in Windsor and Maidenhead
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Karen Meade
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Windsor and Maidenhead

Thursday 30th April

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Karen, Sue, Maggie and Sheila met on a beautiful sunny morning at Spital Cemetery to help tidy up some graves. The first grave we attacked, had been overrun with brambles. Once we had cleared the area, it was revealed to be in memory of 3 sisters, daughters of John George Care. A quick Google revealed that they had 15 siblings and another 11 half siblings! Mr Carey, an architect and surveyor of Gloucester Place, had been a busy man!These were the 3 unmarried daughters. We moved on to trim a Pyracantha bush, whose thorny branches were overhanging the path. Lastly we cleared some branches of a wild rose masking another grave belonging to Richard Mentz-Tolley, who we discovered to be an Ironmaker of Osborne Road, Windsor. Karen and Sue worked hard to uncover the beautiful stone cross which had fallen onto the grave, but since covered over with soil and creeping weeds A really interesting morning!


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https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/community-and-living/cemeteries-and-crematoria/cemeteries/windsor-cemetery-st-leonards-road

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