Hello Alan, I’m sorry I go on a bit here: I won’t say I’m an expert on cemeteries and the photography, but have had some experience. I carry a ‘cemetery kit’ in my car. Yes - the family nod their heads and point! It has a toothbrush, a wire brush (you can get toothbrush sized ones from gardening centres - they use them for rose bushes!), general hearth brush and/or scrubber, scraper, spray bottle of water, and if you’re in the mood, the likes of 30 seconds or Wet and Forget (I already mix/dilute it), if you want to do a big clean up. Some aficionados are averse to such cleaners, citing the fact that stones must age. But from my point of view the deceased and his progeny wrote on the headstones so people could read them. So I spruce up headstones as much as I can. Photography: better to do on a cloudy day, and also better if the stone is wet. You need a broad view of the grave and a close up. Barbadoes St Cemetery specifically: The earthquakes have really knocked it round. However the Council has done a lot to lay the fallen stones down and prop them up off the ground as they have done with a lot of their other cemeteries. In this cemetery, there are a lot of graves unmarked, particularly on the Catholic and non-conformist side of the road. As you drive down it’s Catholics, etc. on the right and Anglicans on the left. So you need to come prepared with a map or guide, or at least your plot/row etc. There is a guide map at the cemetery entrance to get you started. As and aside, I have my little pioneer James Patrick MAHER, as I call him, died accidentally aged 6 in 1882. Some kind soul had laid his perfectly legible stone down on his grave, out of which has sprouted a large cabbage tree. On the Catholic side!! ???? Any help you want on your Christchurch visit, just email me. I’m 5 minutes away. Are you a Channel Island De La Mare? Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail