Weaste Cemetery

[emmsthheight]

Hi BF

Welcome to Rootschat!  You'll get loads of help on here.  I have.

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Best wishes

Emms

[Mr. MIGKY]

Thanks Migky

Yes you really need a friend to help.

Thanks for the private message but I cannot reply for some reason. Now hoping to spend more time on here.

Cheers
BF

Hi BF, just reply to this post and then you will be able to send PM's. You have to have had a minmum of three post on rooschat before you are allowed to send PM's
Migky

[cassandra123]

Stone curbs around the graves are being removed everywhere so as to make mowing the grass more easy and safely done.

Where the gravestones are loose or where no one is now responsible for the upkeep of those stones they are being removed for Health & Safety reasons since a child who was playing in the cemetery had a stone fall on him I think it was Rochdale way , so now all authorities are paranoid about stones.  In our cemetery we are getting letters for us to have work done on the headstones even when they are absolutely solid in place with a £120.00 fee for each family grave. the Bills are being sent to the people who have the grave papers in their keeping.

Every stone marked with a sticker has to have them re-set at the bases even though ours are one concrete footings and not directly into the soil.

They are putting the onus on the bereaved and not on the fact that children should not be using the cemeteries/graveyards as a playground.

I have also noticed that my next door neighbour has had some stone slabs put into her garden as a feature and it was quite obvious when they were wet that there had been some sort of engraving on them previously.  So obviously re-cycled stones

[chirp]

Health & Safety gone mad (again) - it's up to parents to make sure their children don't play in dangerous places and I would have thought that graveyards offered several potential dangers.

What happens if the owner of the grave is now in said grave? I guess it means that no one owns it (unless a descendant makes a claim?) and the council feels it can go ahead and do just what it likes.

As for lying the stones face down isn't there a H&S issue here too, after all some people  might attempt to stand the stone upright in order to read the inscription................

This is history being destroyed - a sad situation.
Chirp

[Manx Hatter]

Is this thread a bit dried up and defunct - I have some questions about Weaste Cemetry

[uk2003]

Is this thread a bit dried up and defunct - I have some questions about Weaste Cemetry

Hi Manx Hatter

Welcome to rootschat 

If it's not already been answered in this thread I would start a new one.

[Manx Hatter]

Thanks Mancs, I'll do that

Manx