Hello to all our Cemetery Friends and Neighbours It is Spring once more and the colours of the daffodils in the Cemetery never fail to amaze me.Dean Road Cemetery is looking smart with most of the headstones standing proud, however an inspection of headstones is currently taking place and we are expecting some headstones on Dean Road will be deemed unsafe and many more will be laid flat in Manor Road Cemetery to prevent accidents and breakages. Sadly the Community Payback project has now come...

Hello to all our Cemetery Friends and Neighbours After such a difficult 18 months for everyone, we too were feeling isolated and started having Zoom meetings this year to enable us to keep in touch and planfor the work and projects we wanted to do. We have had a very productive few months and have lots to tell you. The biggest impact in the Cemetery is the work the Community Payback Team have undertaken. In Dean Road the last fallen headstone (near the junction of Dean Road and Columbus...

Hello to all our Cemetery Friends and Neighbours At last, it looks as though we are coming out of Lockdown, and we will, hopefully, be able to look forward to better times ahead, meeting up with friends and getting back to a new ‘normal’. Even though you may not have seen us working, we have been holding Zoom meetings and working behind the scenes to offer new services and projects within the Cemetery setting. We are all very excited to launch our new Cemetery Website. It is more user friendly...

Yorkshire Regiment Memorial Bench The Scarborough Branch of the Yorkshire Regiment Association have donated this beautiful bench in memory of men and women who served in the regiment. A dedication ceremony was held on 9th November 2019, attended by The Mayor of Scarborough, members of the Yorkshire Regiment Association, Army Cadets, Sea Cadets, Royal Marine Cadets and friends of the cemetery.

I am very pleased to be able to write for this newsletter which includes contributions from both Dean Road Chapel Ltd and the Friends of Dean Road and Manor Road Cemetery. In our last newsletter I reported that we were not successful with our grant aid application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the complete restoration of the Chapel. This was disappointing but we were not to be deterred and since then we have spent a considerable amount of time researching other opportunities for grant aid....

We had another very successful fair early in September, raising over £1,200 to support the chapel
restoration project. The weather was kind to us and lots of people visited,
thronging the stalls and enjoying the organ music, the poppy installation on
the cross of sacrifice, and the sight of the horse drawn hearse going round
the cemetery. The town crier kept everyone informed throughout the day and around 20 people went on a WW1 themed guided walk.