General Chat

Apparently if was FIFTEEN-year-olds wot did it! What will they be up to by 18? Lily

when i was younger i hated even walking over a grave... it spooked me out...still does cos you feel as though you are upsetting the person buried there...the eprson at peace...but these vandals are disgusting...how can anyone be at peace where there place of rest is distrupted and vandalised by the council or youths of today.

If anyone is concerned about family headstones (especially in view of the recent news of vandalism in cemeteries) did you know you can insure them? I became worried that if my daughter's small headstone was broken by vandals or the idiots from the council who mow straight over her grave, I wouldn't be able to afford a new one, so now I pay a small amount every three years to insure it. Details from your local stonemason - preferably the one you purchased it from. Does give me something less to worry about.

I have just seen the news report from Bolton 'sickening', just what is happening nowadays. I used to spend hours in the local cemetry as a child jsut roaming around looking, wouldn't have dreamt of walking over a grave never mind touching one. A few month ago I had to gone to my Mum's on the way round I couldn't beleive what I saw. You know the ones that are like tables? Well someone had pushed the lid and then pulled the side off how sick is that. anyway it is fixed now. But like everywhere else our council is pulling them down so sad. Germaine

I am sickened by the devastation in a cemetry by hooligans in the Farnworth/Bolton area - headstones toppled, smashed, even children's graves destroyed - and teddies hung in nooses in the trees.........how sick is that? Are people so smashed out of their minds on drugs/drink that they can do these things without a care? Please, someone, tell me what is happening in society today,because I can't fathom it at all. Lily

My dad is buried in a 'memorial park' as the word cemetery is obviously too naff. No stones allowed, you have to have a small plaque set into the grass. The council cut the grass using ride on machines and they cut everything, so you can't plant any flowers on the grave. I think all gravestones should be photographed before being knocked down so that there is a record of them. If teenagers did it they'd be labelled hooligans. Luckily the one to my great-grandparents is still standing. nell

thanks for your replies lol i just hoping no more get knocked down!

hi jess i feel exactly same as you,im disgusted.my local cemetry yardley in birmingham has this week taped off so many graves warning thre not to bo approached because there not safe. i feel like running around with the camera and photographing the stones in case someone needs them looked up in the future. luv debs.x

Rant away! My grandmother took me to her parents' grave when I was little (must have been about 8). I found out from someone who offered look ups for MI in the cemetery that the headstone had been vandalised and knocked down. None of us have the money to replace it. Drives me mad because I wanted to go and visit it again. It also remembers my great uncle who died in WW2. I can't understand why people vandalise graveyards, or even why the councils think they're unsafe! They're just worried about being sued. Pathetic. No respect for the dead.

they reckon they pulling them down cos they unsafe and it is some law now that they have to be made safe since a child was killed by one...

That is so bad I went walking round a cemertry in Reading when I was there, just being nosey, and some of the head stones were from 1600's and still standing, so why did they have to pull down ones only a few years old??? Bev

hi all just a little moan lol went out for a walk with ryan earlier to get out of mum's hair and decided to walk through the local cemetery near my old school. i'd read in the papers how some were unsafe so council workers had knocked down the grave stones that hadn't been made safe....well i was disgusted...i thought they were on about ones dating back 50+ years but no most of them were ones dating back to the 60s to the 80s...they wren't even laid behind the grave they were pushed forward and on top of the grave... i went to check a friends grave was ok as a neighbours parents stones had been knocked down and were quiet safe...neighbours son was told that it took some very strong sub-contract workers to knock them down. anyways sorry got my rant over and done with...just very upset that soemthing that was put up for our ancestors memory has to be destroyed like that. jess