Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 2

[liverpool annie]

Hi Blue !

Mary A found the Grange Cottages .... right when we first started !! I can't quite remember exactly but I don't think it was ever figured out which one was "The Cot " 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,206958.60.html

[Heyesie]

The Cottage
Grange  Lane
Gateacre
LIVERPOOL
L25 5JX

Hi Annie

I found two listed as the Cottage
Maybe the names could have ben changed down the years also
To suit an indivdual family
A search of a trade directory may give a clue

[Heyesie]

Grange Cottage
Grange  Lane
Gateacre
LIVERPOOL
L25 5JZ

See here is another

[kesannah]

I just called in to see the pics. Thanks for posting those Edna and please thank your sister for taking them.

Perhaps Michel should send a picture of himself as he started this whole "adventure"

[AMBLY]

Me too!       :  Thanks Edna and Sister for getting these photo's!  Great job 
Great to see his name in print in the Book too (And thanks to Poll for enlarging it  )

I was also interested to read about the purposeful laying down of stones in Anfield , Heyesie!Wow! Did they not at least take a record of the incscription, photograph them, or give interested societies a chance to do that, before they lay them down!!!!!??? 

Cheers
AMBLY

[clematised]

My Sister also sent me the parish magazine and there is this verse in it for Sundays remembrance Day

The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

By Rupert Brooke


I thought it would be apt to print it on this thread.


Edna

[aspin]

It is Edna

you have all done so well

Elizabeth

[Heyesie]

Me too!       :  Thanks Edna and Sister for getting these photo's!  Great job 
Great to see his name in print in the Book too (And thanks to Poll for enlarging it  )

I was also interested to read about the purposeful laying down of stones in Anfield , Heyesie!Wow! Did they not at least take a record of the incscription, photograph them, or give interested societies a chance to do that, before they lay them down!!!!!??? 

Cheers
AMBLY

Liverpool City council we are talking off here Ambly
I think the word incompetent may be a little to weak to describe them
However, Ignorant and arrogant do sum them up a little
I think what happend back then was
That they should have first tried to contact next of kin
But they went at it gung ho

[Mair]

Having recently had experience of "health and safety" of a headstone - and it's a saga -  basically all NEW headstones have to have a metal rod through the headstone itself into its own base and then into the base on the ground, bolted fashion apparently - the bit in the ground to the base of the headstone.

When we asked why it was "just so" we were advised by the stone mason that it was to ensure that when "leant" against the darn thing did not fall over and compromise the safety of the person  leaning on the headstone! ( should the said leaning person not be leaning against something that is not theirs to lean on? - i think I missed something there)

One of course can get insurance to repair any damage but "act of God" is not admissable.  One has to prove vandalism to obtain a payout, so the plan is that the wind, rain, freeze/thaw erosion will only kick in once I am underneath said object by which time I think I may just be past caring!

The red tape made me cynical and I apologise wholeheartedly if I seem "hard" to my recently departed loved one's memorial.  That's what I wanted a memorial - not a liability.

Edna - thank you for showing us the piccies - we now know what we are dealing with and the potential "costs" which will be more than a few quid, should we be allowed to "right" the stone and make safe.

On Sunday when I go and have a chat with Dad I may just have a lean or two to break up the conversation so he can "tut" at me as he did so well.......

M