Update 2005
In the Burial Ground of the Demolished
1st
"The cemetery itself has not been used for 30 years and no-one even visits it. We intend to put the graves back in a way they would be safer to the public and are asking for their patience with us while we do that.
The last thing we want to do was upset people but we had to make the cemetery safe. There is no easy way to do this and I hope people can just keep their patience while we finish the job."
I presume the job is now
finished as it is approximately three years since the shameful desecration of
the burial ground, unfortunately the result speaks volumes for the regard that
this Baptist church holds for those who have gone before.
Unfortunately the feeble attempt at replacing a few stones does in no way
rectify the wanton vandalism that this burial ground has been subjected to and
there is no justification in saying the stones were a danger to the public as
even some of the flat stones were disgracefully removed from the graves they
marked
Guy Etchells.
The burial ground photographed
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