Abbey Gardens

My mother died on Monday 4th July. As she died in a hospital in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, I had to travel there today to register her death.

I haven’t been to the town for a long time so had a wander around the Abbey Gardens while waiting for my appointment time.

[JackieR]

Sorry for you loss Gillian.

BSE is my home town, the Abbey Gardens are looking fabulous

[Gillian Brown]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond Thanks Jackie. BSE has changed a lot since I last went there about 20 years ago. There’s a shopping precinct I’d never seen before where I think the bus station used to be. Woolworths and Debenhams have both gone 🤣🤣

Mum lived at Thetford but the ambulance took her over the border into the West Suffolk Hospital so I had to go to Bury Register Office.

[JackieR]

@gillian1912 how are you doing?? It's a hard emotional time for you, sending hugs!

my parents, and brothers, moved to Thetford, but I'm the only sibling who says I'm from Suffolk. Bury's probably closer than the N&N.

[Carole Sandford]

Lovely capture. Have visited the Abbey Gardens quite often when we used to visit my mother in law - @30pics4jackiesdiamond’s mother.

[Gillian Brown]

@30pics4jackiesdiamond I’m fine thanks. The N & N is our nearest hospital and Mum was originally taken from our house to the N & N in April. Since then she’s been in a care home at Mundford and been taken from there to King’s Lynn hospital several times. Last weekend the ambulance took her to the WS. I have to say that the staff at the West Suffolk hospital were all lovely and I was able to visit her (in full PPE) on the covid ward on the day before she died.

[Gillian Brown]

@carole_sandford lol. I hadn’t realised you were related. Our daughter had her wedding photos taken in the Abbey Gardens in 2001. I hadn’t been there since then.

[CC Folk]

So sorry for your loss. A lovely photo. My mom died on Christmas Day in 2005.

[Gillian Brown]

@gardenfolk Thank you.