What has happened to our once beautiful Allum Lane Cemetery? I made enquiries with the council's gardens department as to the size of plaque permitted at the cemetery and was told they are to be 24ins x 12ins x 2ins, and no larger plaque will be permitted.

On my recent visit to the cemetery I looked at nearly every plaque, around 80 per cent, and found two plaques that were 24ins x 18ins x 2ins. Twenty-eight plaques were 3ins or 4ins thick, as against the normal 2ins thick. There are more than this number, but the day's weather was not good, with wind and rain.

The council did make the stipulation at the very start of the cemetery opening that the plaques would all be the same size; that is 24ins x 12ins x 2ins or 12ins x 12ins x 2ins. They would be in nice, clean, orderly rows and not cluttered with all sorts of bric-a-brac: such things as snooker ornaments, rabbits, birds, frogs, a Father Christmas and sledge, bears, pixies, dogs, cats, squirrels, an owl, mice, windmills, baskets, Holy Marys, Angels, vases and a toy taxi. I could go on.

Please let's get back to a nice floral, orderly, serene cemetery. It should be beautiful and well-kept in our lovely, quiet cemetery fields.

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