Visitor from US

One of the lovely things about being involved with Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery is when we help people to find the graves of their loved ones. This often also leads to revealing information about their family history that they were unfamiliar with. Today, the...

National Citizen Service 2018

Today we welcomed the first of this year’s groups of youngsters undertaking the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme during the school summer holidays. This is the fifth consecutive year of NCS groups volunteering in Hyde Park Cemetery and all groups have...

Bin update

Following on from our previous post, we can report an improvement in the bin situation. Thank you those at Doncaster Council and Suez Recycling and Recovery for responding. The burnt out bin at New Street has been removed and the area tidied. A new bin now sits there....

Bin woes

We are currently experiencing severe problems regarding the bins in the cemetery! Four weeks ago, the large wheeled bin near to New Street was set alight and destroyed. (A similar incident occurred with the Green Dyke Lane bin last year). Despite it being reported by...

Guided walk with Friends of the Museum

Helen, our group’s Secretary, ran the first of this years guided walks today (Saturday 24th March 2018), with Phil a long standing friend and volunteer of Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery. Helen and Phil took a group from the Friends of the Museum around 14 very...