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I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« on: Saturday 26 February 22 21:00 GMT (UK) »
You can't Cmd Z on a headstone...  :D

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Re: I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 26 February 22 21:19 GMT (UK) »
  It took me a while - I guess Cmd Z is a keyboard shortcut. ::) :D
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Re: I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 26 February 22 21:24 GMT (UK) »
Undo!

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Re: I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 26 February 22 22:24 GMT (UK) »
The engraver should have gone to Specsavers.  ;D
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Re: I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 26 February 22 22:39 GMT (UK) »
Was the monumental mason a census transcriber too? I wonder.  ;D
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Re: I wonder if the family got a refund?!
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 27 February 22 10:57 GMT (UK) »
And it was really good quality stone too! Those edges are still crisp 140 years later.

Some of us have visited enough graveyards to notice these things!
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 27 February 22 14:38 GMT (UK) »
It really is, which is what makes it such a shame. It's on a bluff exposed to the worst the North Sea can throw at it and it's just as good now as it was nearly 150 years ago.

Unlike these beauties in far less exposed locations elsewhere in Durham:

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 27 February 22 14:38 GMT (UK) »
And this one
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