Wednesday 17th June 2026 - Christ Church, Sandown GG #1085

 Terry's photos

We had a visitor!

Christ Church, consecrated in 1847

This week we were at a new venue!  A new site always gets the GG-ers interested and we had a healthy turnout today.  The task was to help the very small team of church volunteers with their work clearing the graveyard.  There was a lot of bramble, dead wood and overgrown graves.  Clearing the graves will help the team to update their grave records as some of the information records the sites of the graves incorrectly.  The cut material was piled up for disposal later.

Please see the following link -

Church building and church yard - Christ Church Sandown

This link has some historical information and further links within it to documents showing the placement of WW1 graves and Commonwealth War Graves.

The area we were working in predominantly had death dates of 1920-21.  There was discussion about the Spanish flu epidemic which occurred 1918-20, so it is feasible that some may have died of the flu, although it did primarily affect young adults - Spanish flu - Wikipedia

We also had a visitor today – Geoff, who was a GG-er and our Treasurer for many years.  Now living on the mainland, he popped by to check in on us and have a catch up.  It was great to see him. 😊

Thank you to Terry for the photos and to the Christ Church volunteers for the refreshments.