New Year traditions vary around the world. In the South American country of Chile New Years Eve is now spent by many families visiting the graves of their loved ones. The practice is believed to have started in 1995 in the city of Talca, 158 miles south of the capital...

As Christmas approaches, its a time to reflect on the year gone by. We are Liverpool's oldest family run monumental mason business and we have continued to get great satisfaction from the customer feedback we get when jobs are completed. The memorials and services we...

Floral grave images can add to a memorial, bringing a sense of sorrow, love and warmth to your loved one's final resting place. They can also add brightness and colour, helping celebrate their life rather than mourn it. There is no end to the number of designs for...

The Tenants' Forum at Stockbridge Village are installing a new memorial on Remembrance Sunday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Stockbridge Village celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2016. It was initially developed as Cantril...

Headstone safety is not something that should be taken for granted, even for relatively recent memorials. It is so easy to assume that it is only headstones from the Victorian era that will be laid flat in cemeteries, but that needn't be the case at all. One of...

John Ryle, who was appointed the first Bishop of Liverpool when the diocese was created in 1880, is buried in the churchyard at All Saints Church, Childwall. Ryle was the son of a banker from Henbury, near Macclesfield in Cheshire. He was born in 1816 and went to...