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From: "Essex Research" <>
Subject: Clacton cemeteries
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:16:41 +0100


----- Original Message -----
From: The Taylors

Claire

It all depends on the company testing the memorial headstones.(Topple
testing as its known in some circles) Its all part of Cemetery and
Churchyard Risk Assessment.

The company our local council (not in Essex)is employing (Memsafe) do not
lay down headstones. They support them with a post and a non obstrusive
tape. No black and yellow banding!! So no problem with reading inscriptions.

You would need to check who is doing the work. Whoever it is needs to be
very careful and handle everything sympathetically as it can cause great
upset

Graham,

----- Original Message -----
From: C P Biggam


> BBC Essex Radio reported yesterday that Tendring District Council is
> testing and laying flat any unsafe gravestones in the cemeteries of
> Clacton, Dovercourt and Kirby.

***Does anyone know whether consideration is paid to the future reading of
the gravestones, i.e. do they lay them with the inscription uppermost? Or
does it depend entirely on practical considerations such as the space
available, which way they're currently leaning etc.? If some of the
inscriptions are underneath when they're laid flat, are we sure they've been

recorded first?

My personal interest is that I have relatives, and possible relatives buried

at All Saints, Dovercourt. When we visited recently, I must say the worst
hazard we found was the sinking down of the far sections of the graveyard -
we had to give up searching as you really needed heavy boots to avoid a
broken ankle. Nobody's fault, of course.

Carole Biggam





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