What rights do living relations have regarding headstones

[loo]

This is a long-standing problem.
Thomas Hardy wrote about it a long time ago:
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/banerjee.html

[JoJoBuggins]

Inchworm

Dont know about the Cholera epidemic, only just started researching the Stanley side of my ancestors

After looking at the Stanley St Peters burial Index, think I might have a few more in there.

Ive put in an objection, along with quite a few of my relations, have to keep our fingers crossed, but I'll keep you informed of any further developments.

Think after my cousin speaking to the person from the diocese, and voicing her opinion, he knows full well the concerns over the Headstones and he's promised her that she will be kept in the loop

Jo

[fek33]

I wondered if anyone has just seen the Watchdog article regarding Tottenham Park Cemetery, North London?

It is maintained by a private company, and it showed memorials thrown in skips and one family visited their family's graves and found out that someone else has been buried there!!!

A lady from York University said it was the worst site she had seen.

It looked like a tip rather than a cemetery.

I found it really upsetting and feel for anyone who has relatives buried there.

 

FEK33

[MarieC]

This is a long-standing problem.
Thomas Hardy wrote about it a long time ago:
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/banerjee.html

Yes, loo!

I actually visited Old St Pancras churchyard looking fruitlessly for mysterious ancestors, and was surprised by what I read there about the moving of the bodies so that the railway could go through, and Hardy's part in it.  There is actually an ash tree with headstones stood vertically en masse all around it, that is known as "the Hardy tree"!  I hadn't known this about Hardy, and I'm sure it is not a memorial he would treasure!

MarieC

[Inchworm]

Oh no! Not Tottenham too. Is it the big one in Tottenham. I have relatives also buried in Tottenham. Perhaps some kind person could take a photo of the grave for me, before it disappears. I have the grave number.

[fek33]

Inchworm, sorry don't know much about the cemetery only that Watchdog said it was "Tottenham Park Cemetery, North London".

I am sorry if you do have relatives buried there.  Perhaps like you say sks will take a photo for you.   

FEK33

[fek33]

Information about Tottenham Park Cemetery can be found on the BBC Watchdog link  :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/services/services_20070502.shtml

(I hope I have put this on correctly - 1st time I have put a link on)   

FEK33

[millymcb]

I just came across this Parliamentary Report and thought I'd post the link in case anyone is interested...It's from 2001 but still makes interesting reading...all about trying to balance the greenbelt & wildlife needs with leisure, landscaping  & historical requirements ...but still giving priority to the main purpose as a burial ground.  Wonder if any of the local planners have read it recently?

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i1/

[mahees]

For those people with Catholic relatives-I just got off the phone to the Catholic Cemetery where my G-Grandad is buried. The man I spoke to informed me that it is against their religion to reuse grave sites, or to build over them.
He says the problem mainly exists with council-owned cemeteries. I wonder if it is the kind of thing that could be altered through legeslation. Something to bring up with the local MP perhaps.
Erin