QUESTIONS on the history of Dolvin Road Cemetery can soon be answered at a guided walk led by local historian, Alex Mettler. Mr Mettler will guide the tour answering queries people have wondered about the cemetery: why was it built? Is anyone famous buried there? and why was it closed? The guided walk is the first event organised by Friends of Tavistock Cemeteries, which came together in May. Everyone is invited to the free event on Wednesday, July 19 at 7.30pm inside the new gate just along from Abbey Bridge. Mr Mettler has amassed a data-base of information, some of which he will reveal for the first time. A lot of work has been done on the burial registers and on recording the inscriptions on the monuments, but much of it is not easily accessible to the public. Later this year Friends of Tavistock Cemeteries hope to publish a selection of Mr Mettler?s research in a booklet form. The group has an interest also in Plymouth Road Cemetery and St Andrew?s Churchyard at Whitchurch, as well as in St Eustachius Churchyard and the burial ground of Abbey Chapel.
