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Subject: Re: [DEV] Cremation in Exeter area
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:46:36 +0100 (BST)
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Will have to check later, but I think it was about 1956.

Terry


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>Date: 10/09/2011 19:
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>To: "Kate Burhouse"<>
>Cc: "Devon List"
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>Subj: Re: [DEV] Cremation in Exeter area
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>When my grandmother was in a nursing home in Exeter, she indicated
she
>wanted to be cremated by saying she 'wanted to go to Torquay'.
She evidently
>didn't realize there was a crematorium in Exeter - this
was about 1964 (she
>died in 1966). So presumably this was usual
practice in Exeter.
>
>I'm not sure when Torquay crematorium opened
(Terry Leaman will know!), but
>before that I think it was a case of
going to Bristol - I believe the
>crematorium in Arnos Vale opened in
about 1912.
>
>Angela in Dawlish
>----- Original Message -----
>From:
"Kate Burhouse" <>
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>Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:13 PM
>Subject: [DEV] Cremation
in Exeter area
>
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> Does anyone know when cremations
started in the Exeter area? I see that
>> Exeter Crematorium was built
after 1954, but was there anywhere else
>> before
>> that?
>>
>>
Thanks
>>
>> Kate
>>
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