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THE TEAM
 

These are the main members of the team working to restore the cemetery to its former glory:
 
 

Saul Marks has been attending Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation since 1991, and was Bar Mitzvah there in 1993. Having graduated from the University of Durham with a BSc(Hons) in Applied Psychology, he set up his own genealogy business in 2003, and completed a Diploma in Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool in 2006. He became involved in the work on Deane Road Cemetery in July 2004 and was appointed to head its restoration in March 2005. A year later, he became the youngest warden to be appointed at the synagogue since 1872.
 
Maria Curran is a Neighbourhood Development Officer for Kensington Regeneration. Kensington New Deal for Communities, known as Kensington Regeneration, strives to ensure that residents of the Kensington district of Liverpool are fully involved in regeneration of the area. Maria is an enthusiastic genealogist and has a strong appreciation of the need to remember one's family and community history.
 
Cath Taylor is a Project Officer for Kensington Regeneration.  Cath became involved in the Deane Road Cemetery project after a group of Kensington residents highlighted the need for Kensington Regeneration to be supportive of the cemetery as an important part of the local area's history and heritage.  Within the group, Cath's role largely involves progressing funding bids and organising and minuting group meetings.
 
Cllr Louise Baldock represents Kensington and Fairfield ward on Liverpool City Council. An enthusiastic genealogist, she has been hard at work tracking down some of the living descendants of the people buried in the cemetery to see how they might help with the restoration project. She has also been encouraging the council to get involved in cleaning up dumped rubbish from the cemetery and encouraging neighbours not to throw rubbish over the wall.
 
Lisa Vingoe - Community 7.
 
Muriel Sumner - Long-term maintenance.
 

Arnold Lewis - President of Liverpool Jewish Historical Society. Liverpool Jewish community archivist from April 2006, taking over from Joe Wolfman.
 
Mervin Kingston has been a member of Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation for 35 years. He was asked to join the Select Committee and went through the usual offices, before becoming Senior Warden from 1983-85. He became chairman of the Burial Board in 1982 and has been in charge ever since. He has overseen several attempts to renovate Deane Road Cemetery during his term of office. He is also a past president of the Merseyside Jewish Representative Council and is chairman of the Merseyside branch of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX).
 

Ronnie Bracey was a member of Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation for the vast majority of his life, and was Senior Warden from 2003-05. Sadly, he died just weeks after completing his term of office. He was a crucial figure at the centre of the Liverpool Jewish community and was instrumental in the establishment and continuation of the community centre at Harold House. Following his retirement, he became a synagogue warden, during which time he laid the foundations for this latest attempt to restore Deane Road, enlisting the services of the Groundwork Trust and Dave Holland, and supervising applications for funding. His influence will be sorely missed.
 

David Holland is an ecologist who retired from the Environment Agency in 1999. Specialist dealing with Japanese knotweed, he was originally brought into the project by Ruth Webster of the Groundwork Trust in May 2004 and has been battling away at the problem ever since. He is a graduate of Liverpool University and born and bred a Liverpudlian to boot, so he has a real feeling for this project.
 
Joe Wolfman was the archivist of the Liverpool Jewish community for over 20 years. He retired from teaching English around 1980 and began attending meetings of the Liverpool Jewish Historical Society. When the previous community archivist, Karl Abrahams, died, Joe was asked to take on some of his work, as there was no-one else to do so. He has amassed countless documents relating to every aspect of the history of the Liverpool Jewish community, including synagogues and notable families and individuals. He was also instrumental in setting up the community archive held at Liverpool Record Office. He was succeeded as community archivist by Arnold Lewis in April 2006.
 
 

To donate to the restoration project via PayPal, click here. This will take you to the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation donations page, through which you can donate to the Project. Please specify that your donation is for Deane Road Cemetery only.

 

To donate by post, please make cheques or postal orders (in Pounds Sterling only) payable to LOHC Deane Road A/C and send them to: The Secretary, Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, Synagogue Chambers, Princes Road, Liverpool, L8 1TG.

 

We would be grateful if UK taxpayers wishing to donate to the cemetery would fill in this Gift Aid form, in order that the congregation can claim a further 28% of your donation from the Inland Revenue, at no extra cost to yourself. Simply print out the form, fill it in and either post it to the address above or scan it and e-mail it to us at the e-mail address below.
 

Any enquiries should be directed to the webmaster at saulmarks@hotmail.com.

This page was last updated 22 June 2008 22:02.