28th July
The Sun Room Floor is now complete.
23rd/24th/25th/26th/27th July 2026
Continuing work on the Sun Room decking.
19th July 2026
The Phantom Garden gets a trim today.
18th July 2026
The Sun Room floor frame has now been completed using all the old flooring. New decking will be delivered on Wednesday.
16th July 2026
We are pleased to receive from France the Lava Stone Memorial panel honouring Captain Richard Westmacott today.
14th July 2026
12th July 2026
We have changed our Website Header Image.
12th July 2026
Introducing our CONTACT page.
10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17th July 2026
Continuing the new framework for the Sun Room flooring.
9th July 2026
Tributes at the Vera Atkins memorial this morning.
9th July 2026
Mike Colton has been mentioned in this article by the Association of Jewish Ex-service men and women.
https://www.ajex.org.uk/twentieth-anniversary-NMA-2026
8/9th July 2026
We have started to replace the Sun Room floor frame today using the original heavy duty floor boards that we removed. Its amazing that after 14 years they are mostly all reusable with mostly no sign of rot. This will save us a few bob! More to follow on this slideshow this week.
7th. July 2026
We are pleased to announce that two new Lava stone enamelled panels are now complete and will be posted to us this week for installation in the Grove.
4/5/6/7th July 2026
Work has started on renewing the wooden floor in the Sun Room at the centre of the Grove. The original under frame and boarding was installed in 2012.
30th June 2026
A few weeks ago we had a surprise visitor in the Grove a Laurence Gale who works for TurfPro. Here is his story about the NMA and also quite a feature about the Grove.
29th June 2026
Foamex Panels depicting future memorials have been added to the Sun Room ceiling honouring David Arnold SBS and Richard Westmacott MC 22 SAS.
29th June 2026
Added to the Sun Room ceiling today are the Foamex panels for the finished memorials to the French Squadron 2nd SAS and Al Kindi MM along with a very small roundel to Captain John Campbell Mc and Bar that was too small for fitting on the Popski’s Private Army memorial. a roundel double the size will be in place soon.
Better pictures to follow……..
28th June 2026
“WHERE NATURE GREETS REMEMBRANCE” ~ YouTube video of the Grove 2003 & 2026
26th June 2026
Captain Richard Westmacott MC and Sergeant David Arnold. We have now received Foamex mock up memorial panels, which will be sent onto family members whilst the Lava stone panels are made in France. Copies of these panels will be sited in the Grove tomorrow.
25th June 2026
Presented to Mike Colton yesterday at the AJEX memorial commemoration.
25th June 2026
Phantom Garden cover image.
18th June 2026
Sgt. David Arnold ~ Special Boat Service
This new memorial is now being created in France at the Studio of Sonia Rinaldi. https://www.sr-intemporale.fr/ and will be sent to the UK in due course.
The memorial design can now viewed @ https://alliedspecialforcesmemorialgrove.org/garden-5/
14th June 2026
Captain Richard Westmacott MC
This new memorial is now being created in France at the Studio of Sonia Rinaldi. https://www.sr-intemporale.fr/ and will be sent to the UK in due course.
The memorial design can now viewed @ https://alliedspecialforcesmemorialgrove.org/garden-4/
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