JUDITH Chalmers is not expected to turn up with a camera crew and bottle of suntan lotion.

However, wish you were here greetings could soon be winging their way through the post - from a cemetery.

The Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery, Middlesbrough, who promote the heritage of the Tees town's final area of woodland, plan to produce a postcard extolling the delights of the working graveyard, the last resting place of the town's Victorian founding fathers.

There are plans for a £1m-plus facelift of the 52-acre site, which incorporates a Quaker burial ground dating from 1668, and graves from the cholera and smallpox epidemics.

Proposals include a paved performance area, complete with seats and sculptures, an education resource centre and an exhibition centre and museum in the mortuary chapel.

The format of the postcard may be decided at a meeting of the Friends next week.

"It's all very exciting and interesting,'' said June Longmire, secretary of the Friends. About the content of the card, she said: "I would imagine there will be something telling people about the history. It will be a nice postcard.''

The Friends have just won a £4,552 National Lottery grant to set up workshops to create a heritage wall hanging, a leaflet - and the postcard.

A spokeswoman for the Awards For All grants distribution scheme said a request for help from The Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery to produce a postcard must be one of the more "unusual'' applications received.

"It is certainly not one of the run-of-the-mill applications but we recognised the worth of this project, although it came from a rather unique group,'' said North-East Awards For All team spokeswoman Pat Lowes.