Blog
Find out about more stories of the stones garnered from our project community’s research and keep up to date with the project’s progress here.
We will give you a tour
Westend residents become graveyard tour guides as part of National Cemeteries and Love your Burial Ground Week Stories of the Stones group members, Ian and Pam Royal took their love of local history to the next level by trying their hand as tour guides at a community...
Chinese Sailor Graves
If you are a regular visitor to St John’s Cemetery, chances are you may have crossed paths with groups of young Chinese students, local Chinese people or Chinese tourists carrying offerings and heading for the six headstones colloquially known as the Chinese sailor...
100 Years later
What does the Montagu Pit disaster mean to the lives of people living today? Local residents take part in creative sessions to help commemorate the people who died in the Montagu Pit Disaster A group of West End residents took part in a creative writing and arts...
Private Ivy Everard 1922-1942
Private Ivy Everard (1922-1942) whose Commonwealth War Grave is at St John’s Cemetery, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne
Heritage Open Days Event at St John’s Cemetery
September 9th 2024 Come and find out more about Stories of the Stones and meet the people behind the project! Cemeteries are community touchstones and over the past 18 months the Stories of the Stones Project has worked volunteers from the local community, alongside...
Garden Party at West Lodge
Project volunteer Kay, kindly invited the core Stories of the Stones group to West Lodge at St John's Cemetery for a garden party this week. We celebrated the achievements of the project so far with sandwiches, tea and cake. We also did a bit of work to plan what will...