Saturday 3 February 2018

Didcot Cemetery


Can't tell you much about this cemetery other than it is along Kinaston Road off between some houses. It's land locked between the housing estates and secondary school. I could not even tell you how old it is though I think it would be early 20th century. I visited after going to a church in Old Didcot .




On coming in from the drive you see a vast expanse of cemetery and over to the right I spotted a white memorial of two angels




Looking further along the cemetery was full on that side with many memorials to young children




There were a few War Graves in the cemetery.
G.W.Reeve
and P.L.Crabtree













Serjeant E.G.Bowler








S.J.Slade and H.S.Marriott

















At the far end of the cemetery you walk through to a new part that is in present day use




Lots of floral tributes on the garden of remembrance 




Nearby you find the more recent day burial
Above Lance Corporal Michael Craig Foley was killed while serving in Afghanistan




Most of this side of the cemetery is in use




Over all view of the cemetery




Back into the older part of the cemetery and another garden of remembrance







Frederick S Tucker (Tommy) served in the RAF on Hurcules, Argossy's & Beverleys . I remember seeing those planes flying locally around here so no doubt Tommy was looking down on me then




The garden of rememberer towards the entrance






On my way around I noticed some of the headstones had unsocial carvings on them











Till Next time have a wonderful wee

6 comments:

Jenn Jilks said...

These are wonderful photos. I love visiting cemeteries.
(ツ) from Cottage Country Ontario , ON, Canada!

Tom said...

...Bill, your military gravestones are so nice, much better than the ones here.

Jim said...

I've never seen anything like those last three.

Elaine said...

The angels, I presume, were twins? Those modern ones are quite something. I must admit that I tend to only visit older churchyards, so I haven't seen any in that style before.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

The graveyard looks well kept Bill, I like that. There is quite a variety of headstones, I must admit I quite like the last three more modern headstones, they should reflect the person passed.

Anonymous said...

It's off Kynaston road it's address is 129 Kynaston road.