Yorkshire in Bloom 2017 entry

You might think that the Yorkshire in Bloom competition is all about flowers and colourful gardens. That’s what we thought, until we were invited to look in detail at the competition’s aims and objectives. In fact, as far as open spaces such as Hyde Park...

Successful Open Meeting & AGM

There was a small but enthusiastic audience in attendance at last night’s Open Meeting and AGM. They enjoyed an excellent talk by Victoria Ryves and Vicky Siviter, from the Doncaster 1914-18, At Home, At War project, including hearing some fascinating stories of...

Fly tipping incident

Occasionally, various anti-social individuals carry out mindless acts in the cemetery. The most recent ones that we are aware of are the fly-tippng of refuse near to the south east corner of the site and damaging one of our Memorial Meadow signs. While this is...

Social media volunteer needed

The Friends of Hyde Park Cemetery are looking for someone with a sound working knowledge of Facebook, Twitter and other social media, to help us to raise the profile of the organisation. You would need to be able to spend about one or two hours per week (or more if...

Illustrated Talk on Hyde Park Cemetery

Thanks go to everyone at the Tickhill MHA “Live At Home” Group, who attended this afternoon’s illustrated talk about Hyde Park Cemetery. They formed a small but receptive audience. We also thank them for their donation towards the work of...