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Title: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: charlotteCH on Thursday 03 June 10 05:03 BST (UK)

 Can someone with local knowledge tell me if the Dissenter's Cemetery In From is on Vallis Way?

Thank you,
charlotte

Title: Re: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: Jo Harding on Thursday 03 June 10 10:59 BST (UK)

I think that the Frome Museum could answer this.

http://fromemuseum.org

Jo

Title: Re: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: charlotteCH on Friday 04 June 10 09:16 BST (UK)

Thanks Jo :)

charlotte

Title: Re: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: Mal on Sunday 06 June 10 22:41 BST (UK)

Yes it's on Vallis Way

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/620748

Mal

Title: Re: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: charlotteCH on Monday 07 June 10 05:20 BST (UK)

Thank you Mal.

It looks very well maintained.

charlotte

Title: Re: Dissenters Cemetery Frome? Is it on Vallis Way please?
Post by: fromedissenter on Wednesday 27 August 14 08:31 BST (UK)

Frome Dissenters Cemetery
20 Vallis Road
FROME BA11 3EF
Somerset

Further along the road towards Radstock.  Opposite the former Inland Revenue Office

OPEN DAY on Saturday 30th August 2014 - 10.00 to 16.00  -  Original Registers, Minute Books etc available for inspection.  Plans of the Cemetery.  Assistance with finding Burial lots.

Copies of the transcripts my wife and I made of the Registers in 2003 will be available in exchange for a donation to Trust Funds.

A Thanksgiving and Memorial Service will be held on Sunday 31st August 2014 at 14.30 - To give thanks for the lives of nearly 6500 people buried here and for those who continue to maintain this oasis of peace on the edge of town.  In memory, 100 years on, of those who gave their lives in the First World War, many of whom are buried and/or commemorated here.  If Dry, the Service will be held near the HARVEY Grave, which also records the death in France of Grandson Lewis John Harvey VALLIS -

From Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website -

VALLIS, LEWIS JOHN HARVEY

Rank:Lance Corporal  Service No:14808  Date of Death:29/08/1916  Age:22  Regiment/Service:Gloucestershire Regiment 10th Bn. Panel Reference: Pier and Face 5 A and 5 B. Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL   Additional Information: Son of Lewis Walter and Florence Elizabeth Vallis, of Hemington House, Alexandar Rd., Frome, Somerset.

All Welcome

Jim - Trustees' Secretary