Friends of Dalry Cemetery
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We have a new monument at Dalry. “In memory of the many thousands who rest in this cemetery in unmarked graves.” Very many burials are in common ground with no markers. Of those in private lairs, many still have no markers. 🌿🪦🌳
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Please don’t attach items to cemetery furniture. A cemetery is a deeply inappropriate place for political protest*, and metal hoops will damage our new benches.
*the suffragette colours have recently been co-opted by anti-trans protesters as a dog-whistle for anti-trans views.
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Would there be any interest in (free) organised historical tour(s) of the cemetery?
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Number 16 to be restood! This one was completely underground when we found it. ☺️🪦🌳
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One of our most mysterious headstones. We know nothing about Electric’s life, or indeed if Electric is their first or last name. The use of concrete is unusual. 🔎🪦🌳
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Please do not clean gravestones like this!!! A hard (wire?) brush has put hundreds of scratches into the marble surface, which can’t be removed now. This gravestone is unfortunately ruined, just weeks after we found it. Cleaning must only ever be done with a soft, natural fibre
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Aaaand, we’re done! ✂️🧹🌳
While doing this, the most common comment I got was that it’s the Council’s job. So! To dispel a few misconceptions.
First, the Council do maintain this pavement. At least once a year they cut back most of the fresh ivy growth to prevent further
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Friends of Dalry Cemetery were incredibly excited at the prospect that the £12.5m Union Canal to Roseburn linkup might bring more foxes, rabbits, and even badgers or hedgehogs to the cemetery.
But then we saw how that building work was executed. Every tree that stood, every
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Still super proud that we were the first site in Edinburgh to implement the Less is More mowing system! 🌿🪦🌳
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Greyfriars Bobby, carte-de-visite by Walter Greenoak Patterson, 34 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, ca 1867. Previously unknown. 📸✨🐶
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I have decided to call it a day with Friends of Dalry Cemetery, so that I can focus on other projects and my mental health. I’m very happy to leave you with one of my proudest achievements, our very own war memorial. 🌹🪦🌳
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#volunteering
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#dalry
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In nice news, Dalry Cemetery is really cool! It’s full of wildlife & interesting Victorian monuments & loads of trees! We have benches, we have bins, we have catacombs! It’s a beautiful & peaceful oasis where you can walk your dog, have a picnic, or just enjoy the scenery. ☺️🪦🌳
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To celebrate hitting £4,000 on the fundraiser (wow) I’ve given this little eyesore on the other side of Dundee Terrace Footbridge its first coat of paint! 🌳🟥🌳
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tw/cw: mental health, suicide
Ernest Justin Valliant was a medical student. He was a person of colour. He was living in Edinburgh, abroad from his family. He was probably about halfway through his medical degree. In the days leading up to Christmas 1907, Ernest hung himself.
We
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Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I did get about 20% of the way to the Diggers! Or in Swedish units, about 25 IKEA bags to go. 🍻🪦🌳
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Tidying up the other end of the Dundee Terrace Footbridge! 🧹🌿🌳
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I’ve instructed a solicitor to represent me! 📚🪦🌳
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Please support if you can! 🌼🪦🌳
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The daffodils I planted at the bottom of Coffin Lane Woods are finally flowering! 🌼☺️🌼
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I can’t believe there’s been over 200 individual donations! Thank you so much everyone for all your support! I put a second coat on the postbox by the bridge. 😊🟥🌳
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Delighted to announce that we’ve had another monument restood! 💪🪦🌳
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If you were to take the Dundee Terrace Footbridge to walk down Dundee Street to, for instance, the
@AthleticArms
/ “Diggers” pub, an excellent example of a well-preserved late-Victorian saloon bar, you would find the pavement intolerably intruded upon by accumulated vegetation.
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A quick sweep and it’s finally ready for a before and after! 🧹✂️🌳
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers! We cleared most of the rubbish and branches out of the West Vault, and surveyed the variety of stones piled up inside. Bonus stalactites! 🪦♻️🪵
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If you ask
@RoyalMailHelp
if you can use one of their completely unused eyesore drop boxes for a
#LittleFreeLibrary
they will refuse because it’s Royal Mail’s “private property”. Private property which they won’t clean, fix, paint, or remove.
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Added a bit of context to this local mural of Frederick Douglass! 🪧🪦🌳
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We’ve adopted two adjacent verges we’ve named Coffin Lane Woods and the Wood under the Bridge (shown here), where we do litterpicking and plant bulbs. All of our work depends on the ability to pass freely through the cemetery via either entrance. ⚰️🪦🌳
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With a bit of gentle persuasion we have opened one of our vaults! We already knew there were no coffins inside, but now we’ll be able to get it tidied up and looking like it did in the Victorian days! 🦇🪦🦇
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I need at least two people, ideally more, to take over keeping all of the paths at Dalry free from overgrowth. It’s a few hours of work a week at this time of year but it keeps the cemetery accessible for everyone, especially now that less mowing is being done. Our 26 war graves
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Swept the steps, and found some interesting gravestones! 🐦🪦🌳
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An update on our first year! 🌱🌳🪦
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Well well well, if there isn’t a perfectly adequate pavement hiding under there! 🍻🪦🌳
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I am absolutely overwhelmed by the response to the fundraiser so far. It is deeply moving to see this level of support. In updates, I should have a solicitor chosen today, to represent me at the initial hearing on Aug 17 and going forward. 🙏🙏🙏
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The first step to doing anything, I think, is believing that you can! ✂️🍃🌳
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Lots of snowdrops at the moment! ❄️🪦🌳
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Sorry for the lack of recent content, I’m currently struggling a bit with going to the cemetery and feeling safe being there. But here’s a cool snail I found litterpicking the verge under the Dundee Terrace Footbridge last Wednesday! 🐌🛣️🌳
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It’s not much, but it is a tree nursery! 🌳🌳🌳
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers! We’ve filled 17 bags with ivy and uncovered a gravestone! ✂️🪦🌳
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First it was our war graves, then it was our new benches. Now it’s our listed Victorian catacombs. Stop putting this transphobic nonsense in cemeteries!
Please don’t attach items to cemetery furniture. A cemetery is a deeply inappropriate place for political protest*, and metal hoops will damage our new benches.
*the suffragette colours have recently been co-opted by anti-trans protesters as a dog-whistle for anti-trans views.
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You are not doing anything wrong by walking there or standing there. The cemetery has been open to the public for 177 years. 🌸🪦🌳 3/3
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I think we’re far enough along to announce that
@GDCC_
are purchasing one of these ex-National Galleries museum display cabinets for us, and we have found a location near the cemetery to host it! It will allow us to display all of the bits and pieces we’ve accumulated! 📖📚🪦
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What has become clear over several years of working at Dalry & visiting other Victorian cemeteries is that most monuments were chosen from catalogues. Left is Dalry, right is Roslin. Unfortunately very few Victorian-era monument catalogues appear to have survived! 📖🪦🌳
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As part of our new tree program, we’re rescuing self-seeded saplings from locations they won’t be able to grow bigger in! 🌳🌳🌳
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Absolutely delighted that exactly 175 years* after Elizabeth Douglas became our first burial, her monument is painstakingly being repaired and restood!
#another175years
⏳🪦🌳
*Burial 1846, monument 1858, pushed over & broken 1999-2019.
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It sounds a bit silly, but I’ve found sweeping to be one of life’s great pleasures. You can forever improve your subject, but never perfect it. 🧹🪦🌳
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Very well stocked Library and several hats available via our “Hats for People” program! I’m aware there’s some damp at the back of the bottom shelf & will get it fixed ASAP. 📚🪦🌳
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These may not look like much, but they are the only immortelle flowers we have found at Dalry! Once common, immortelles were ceramic flowers on a marble base with a glass cloche or belljar over the top. The photo with intact immortelle is from Dalry around 1918. 🌼💐🌸
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This sad and neglected bench opposite the Diggers got a facelift by volunteers! It’s been sanded clean and wet rot wood hardener has been applied to the weakest areas, while we explore future steps to improve it more. 🪑🌿🌳
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Putting the finishing touches on our pond! 🐸🪦🌳
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For
#MementoMoriMonday
the only known photo of Dalry’s main entrance on Dalry Rd with the impressive gothic archway still intact! Calotype taken ca 1846 - 58 by James Francis Montgomery, who probably founded the world’s first photography club. 📷🪦🌳
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We’ve refurbished & installed one bin at either end of Coffin Lane! We hope it will reduce the enormous amount of litter thrown over the brick wall into Coffin Lane Woods. 🗑🗑🌳
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I had to check our records, but this is in fact the 15th restanding since we started! 🪦🪦🪦
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Our new Little Free Library is huge! McMitten for scale. 🐈⬛📚📖
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers from
@dentsuUK
who litterpicked loads of areas adjacent to the cemetery, swept Coffin Lane, and raked up various areas of excessive leaf accumulation! Their gracious donation also allowed a monument to be restood. 💪🪦🌳
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Coffin Lane finally has signage, perhaps for the first time ever! ⚰️🪧🪦
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Although less mowing is enabling a wonderful explosion of flowers & bees everywhere, it is still my pleasure and honour to keep our 26
@CWGC
graves clear, visible, and accessible. 🌹🐝🌳
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers! We continued clearing ivy from walls and monuments. The monument uncovered along the wall is a perfect example of why we are removing ivy in the first place, as it has lost most of its surface to ivy roots and is now barely legible. 💪🪦🌳
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Our Little Free Library is getting very busy so we’re upgrading it to a larger model, with three shelves, a bigger roof, and more waterproofing! The current library will be relocated locally after some much-needed maintenance. 📚🪦🌳
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William Caw, Master Joiner & Carpenter, was one of the founding members of St Cuthbert’s Cooperative in 1859 - what is now Scotmid. He’s the fourth founder we’ve found at Dalry so far! 🛒🪦🌳
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I’ve reached the lamppost! Fun local fact, this lamppost was actually installed to inform pedestrians they were exactly halfway from Dundee Terrace Footbridge to the Diggers pub. 💡🪦🌳
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The Council recently removed some piles of soil & rubbish near the top entrance, and made an unexpected discovery! Some light hand digging got it free of the ground, but that was just the start of the mystery... [1 of 3] ♠️✝️🪦
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This is still very much a work in progress, but the Council have very helpfully moved a natural boulder to a central location so we can turn it into a monument for all of the unmarked burials at the cemetery. 💪🪦🌳
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Snowdrops looking beautiful in the sunshine! ❄️☀️🪦
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The only update I can give, on the advice of my solicitor, is that the outcome of today’s hearing was a further delay of the case for 4 to 6 weeks. The next hearing is in May. I am at this moment struggling to find the correct words or way to thank everyone for their support.
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Positivity post 🙂
This is a stressful time. But I have found so many reasons to keep going!
1) My amazing family. They love the cemetery. Until recently it was our favourite way to walk from home to Dalry Road and back again. They want nothing but for me to be happy and
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers! We made a good effort litterpicking along the Roseburn Path! 🗑🚮🌳
#SaveTheRoseburnPath
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The most enduring work we do must be having monuments restood! This is the first one, for our first burial. Since then, we’ve had another 7 restood, I’ve done one by myself, one has been restood by family, and two by the Council, for a total of 12! 💪🪦🌳
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This mile marker is on the outside wall of the cemetery, along Dalry Road. It reads “Edinburgh 1 mile Glasgow 51 miles”. Edinburgh very likely means Tollcross, in this case. Today, Glasgow is 44 miles via the M8, so the mile marker technically needs updating. 🚙🛣️🌳
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It is lovely to see, in a cemetery originally taken over by the Council due to the sheer amount of vandalism occurring in it, that we can now have a beautifully organised and full communal library! 📚🪦🌳
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A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in the cemetery! With a freshly-caught meal, probably a mouse or vole. 🦅🐭🪦
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Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s find, here’s an even higher-resolution version showing even more of the cemetery! We now know this series of aerial photos was taken in 1930. The lack of chimney smoke tells us it’s summer. Earlier in the year, Constantinople had become Istanbul.
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We’re finally dismantling the fallen tree in the top corner! ✂️🍃🌳
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It’s not perfect, but this new roof covering should make our Little Free Library a lot more waterproof than before! ☔️📚🪦
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With many thanks to volunteers from the
@edintoollibrary
, we have our very own Little Free Library! It will be painted black and stocked with books shortly! 📚🗄🪦
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Delightful to see our Little Free Library is being well-used so quickly! It’s also mostly-painted, with just roof flashing & a lovely brass plaque left to go on! 🎨📚🪦
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Happy New Year! Here’s a very handsome recently uncovered monument. ✨🪦🌳
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Many thanks to today’s volunteers! We filled six bags of ivy. This is all part of an effort to make the top corner walkable again! ✂️🪦🌳
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We’ve started laying in wildflower areas! 🌸🌼🐝
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Garden snail (Cornu aspersum) shells almost always coil to the right, left-coiled snails are very rare. They can survive for months inside their shells during dry or cold periods! 🐌❄️☀️
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Apologies for the lack of updates! The legal process is slow. Not being able to walk through the cemetery from the top to the bottom entrance has been very difficult. But we’re keeping busy planting bulbs! 🌸🌼🐝
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