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Lancashire / Re: Rochdale Cemetery request
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 11:29 GMT (UK)  »
MigKy:  Is that what they do at other cemeteries?  That's appalling and in my opinion criminal.  At least at some cemeteries they do make an effort to keep them safe.  As you say about the health and safety regulations...the staff have to keep safe themselves so they are laid down in the safest way and on to the grave that they belong to (not the one behind as you'd get complaints)...so in some cases if the stone is particularly large/heavy the safest way may be to lay them face down, not face up?  I once questioned this, however, if you think about it...if they lay the stone face down, if the stone isn't immediately going to be reinstated it will preserve the inscription if it eventually is.  Doesn't help us genealogists in the meantime though, but at least it's not being vandalised. 

I can't see how the council would make money from it as the stones have to be reinstated by an independant monumental mason chosen by the owner.

Public graves are owned by the council and private memorials are not allowed to be fixed.  However, following some members of staff being upset by having to show many mothers the public graves of their babies and children, a scheme was devised whereby the cemetery fixes a small marker on the grave and the family can purchase an inexpensive bronze plaque to mark the grave.  This is also available on public adult graves.  Families have been very grateful for this as previously the graves were unmarked as a lot of the number stones do have a tendancy to go missing over the years.  I don't think this is available at any other cemeteries? 

Does this help? :)

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Lancashire / Re: Rochdale Cemetery request
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 02:05 GMT (UK)  »
These are answers to quite old posts, but might help someone

Migky: Headstones are not laid "down" for any money making purposes.  They are actually laid down (or up) depending on the ease of the laying, for genuine health and safety purposes.  This is a countrywide government initiative with guidelines laid down by the health and safety executive following accidents and actual fatalities in cemeteries and church yards involving dangerous headstones.  The guidelines state that the headstone must be made safe and sadly laying them down is the safest way.  The headstone is the grave owners responsibility.  New or refixed headstones must now be fixed with a secure anchor system by a NAMM registered stonemason.  If the cemetery were to refix all the dangerous headstones then fees and charges would have to be raised even more to recover the costs.

Dave:  It is a fact that some families put a name on a headstone even though that person isn't in the grave, so facts should always be double checked with actual cemetery records.  It might be helpful to indicate this on your website and also that it is not owned by Rochdale Cemetery!

Re: Grant...That is the Grant of Right of Burial...in other words...someone who owns a grave has the right to say who is buried in that grave. 

Hope this helps :o)

I should add that Rochdale Cemetery staff are not easily charmed........but some of them are quite partial to Maltesars!!!


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Lancashire / Re: Rochdale Cemetery
« on: Wednesday 13 January 10 23:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hiya

Did you get anyone to take a photo for you?  if you contact the Cemetery Office a member of staff can take a photo for you and either email or post it to you.  They're really busy and short-staffed at the moment, but when they have time they'll do it.

And there is a war memorial.

Hope this helps

ReaB

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