00:00Hello, I'm Bob and in my garden there's a gravestone.
00:07We've lived here for 25 years in this lovely garden with a gravestone behind us.
00:12It's the most idyllic place to live, we're so happy and content here.
00:16It is very comforting having a gravestone in the middle of our garden.
00:19How do you use a space, and I see that you've built this summer house in here, how do you live with it?
00:26It's our secret garden.
00:28It's our secret garden, we make good use of it.
00:31We're out here most days, it's the most wonderful place to sit.
00:35It takes quite a lot of maintenance, but we enjoy making the garden.
00:39It's our garden.
00:40It's our lovely garden, it's the most beautiful place.
00:42On a summer's evening out here, cutting the grass, tending the stones, it's the most fantastic thing.
00:47In around 1840, this piece of land was used as a graveyard.
00:52There's around about 100 bodies in this graveyard.
00:55There's three headstones left, we are the custodians of it.
00:59We try to look after it and maintain it for the people to come and enjoy.
01:03It's a lovely place to live in, a lovely community.
01:06When people come to live in Ruffley, they very seldom leave.
01:09We get a lot of tourists come to view the garden, and look at the gravestones, and they find it fascinating.
01:15It's a wonderful place, they say, they wish they lived here.
01:21For more information visit www.fema.gov
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