The Visitor Centre and cafe is opening again on Friday 1 April with our first event being a Joint Exhibition and Sale from the Plymouth Arts Club and Plymouth Watercolour Society.

We look forward to welcoming you.

But for those that cannot make it, please click on the link below for a tour - but bear in mind the images do not do justice to the originals!       

http://paintinginplymouth.altervista.org/maingallery/exhib1_4_22/

This year the Ford Park Cemetery Spring Fayre will be on Saturday 9th April.

Doors open at 11.00 until 2.30 with a variety of stalls to tempt you.

 Homemade cakes, jewellery, books, DVDs, bric-a-brac, tombola and more. The cafe will be opened to serve hot drinks and snacks.

We look forward to welcoming you.

The Bric-a-Brac and Craft stalls will be open at the cemetery this Saturday (19 March) from 10.30 until 1.00.

Northey Takeaway Cafe will be open for coffees, teas and our famous bacon rolls.

We are seeking volunteers to help with this regular event. If you are interested in helping, please contact the cemetery office or come along on Saturday morning and chat with Maggie about volunteering.

The Bric-a-Brac and Craft stalls will be open at the cemetery this Saturday (5 March) from 10.30 until 1.00.

We are seeking volunteers to help with this regular event. If you are interested in helping, please contact the cemetery office or come along on Saturday morning and chat with Maggie about volunteering.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT REQUIREMENTS THE CEMETERY IS CLOSED EXCEPT FOR BURIALS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Therefore we have had to make some key decisions about the way in which the cemetery is operating over the next few weeks so please note the following:

1. The cemetery office is closed except for telephone contact until further notice. This includes the toilets in the visitor centre.

As the Visitor Centre will be closed for the next few weeks, the Heritage Team will be displaying the Exhibition posters, which they prepared for the first exhibition.

 The Exhibition is called "History of Ford Park Cemetery - Celebrating 20 years of the Trust" and a new poster will be added every few days between 28 March and 14 May.

As you can't join us in the Visitor Centre we hope that you will enjoy the opportunity to share the research which the Heritage Team have carried out.

The Board of Trustees at Ford Park Cemetery has decided that from Monday 16th March and until further notice the Visitor Centre and cafe at the cemetery will be closed.

This means that the planned exhibition celebrating 20 years of the Trust which was due to run from Saturday 28th March will not take place, nor will the associated walk planned for Sunday 5th April.

The Spring Fayre which was planned for Saturday 21st March will not go ahead. We are hoping to reopen the Visitor Centre before the end of April but that will depend on events.

The offices at the cemetery will remain open during usual office hours.

The weather is terrible, and the news isn't any better so why not escape for a few hours over the weekend of 14/15 March and join us and the Dartmoor 009 group at their Model Railway presentation in the Visitor Centre.

The kids will love it but probably not as much as their dads!

We look forward to welcoming you.

Our first evening event of the year features Mad Dog Mcrea who are described as a British folk band from Plymouth.

Their music blends a mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz and bluegrass.

To get a taste of their music look them up on YouTube but to get the full experience you need to see them live.

Come and join us on Friday 5th April at the Railway Social Club, Pennycomequick.

The evening starts at 8pm and tickets are on sale now from the cemetery office priced £10.

Thank you to Maggie for organising the Spring Fayre and to our volunteers who helped to make this event a success.

Well done.

Books  £29.80

Bric A Brac    £122.15

Café               £170.00  (Amount taken £229.50 less cost of pasties £59.50)

Cakes             £74.60

Crafts              £62.62

Door               £48.00

Jewellery       £105.50

Plants            £53.20

Raffle            £112.00

Tombola       £112.00

Winner Takes Half   £20.00

TOTAL:  £909.87 

Thank you for coming and your support.

Our first exhibition of the year opens on Saturday 30th March in the Visitor Centre.

The theme for this exhibition is accidental deaths.

Some of the people buried at the cemetery have died as a result of accidents which, in this day and age of health and safety, could have been prevented.

Others have taken risks and paid the ultimate price.

Our exhibition includes accidents involving trams, trains, aeroplanes, bicycles and even lions. We look forward to welcoming you to the visitor centre.

Thank you to Richard Roach for organising a very successful evening.

A profit of £239 was raised for the Cemetery.

Thank you for supporting this event.

Our Visitor Centre opens again on Saturday 23rd March 11am - 2.30pm, when it will be the venue for our Spring Fayre.

The cafe will of course be open.

We will also have stalls in the Victorian Chapel and the Northey Room.

All the usual stalls will be there, crafts, bric-a-brac, tombola, jewellery, homemade cakes, books.

Entry fee 50p

 Please come along and support us.

The Quiz Night with fish &chip supper has proven to be very popular, it is sold out.

Our Events are very popular, to avoid disappointment please book in advance.

On Sunday 1 April Rod Pickles will be hosting a walk to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force.

There are 49 RAF graves at Ford Park and Rod will be giving the stories behind some of them.

The walk commences at 2pm so if you could be in the Visitor Centre by 1:45 it would be appreciated. The walk should last about an hour and a half.

Refreshments will be available in the visitor centre cafe.

There is no charge for the walk.