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    Councils and church authorities are quite strict about what they will and will not allow these days. There are some magnificent and quirky memorials all over the country that our forebears left behind, but our recently departed will have small and bland gravestones. No skulls and crossbones...

    I thought I'd share an inscription from Lindfield in Sussex that I spotted when searching for my husband's ancestors' graves that would never be allowed now:

    In
    Memory of
    RICHARD TURNER
    who DIED November 15th
    1768 aged 21 years
    Long was my Pain, great was my Grief
    Surgeons I'd many but no Relief
    I hope through Christ to rise with the just
    My leg and Thigh was buried fust

  • #2
    Hahaha!

    OC

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    • #3
      dont know whether to laugh or cry poor man, there certainly are some interesting headstones.

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      • #4
        Some chap in Pulborough recently took a sledgehammer to his mother's headstone as the church authorities took exception to it and said it had to be removed.

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        • #5
          I knew someone and there are dustbins on his.Small and bland not his!!

          Should of said blue bins.
          Last edited by the meercat; 16-09-12, 12:26.
          the meercat.

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          • #6


            Hello, meercat
            Last edited by Joy Dean; 16-09-12, 15:33.
            Joy

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            • #7
              hello;D
              the meercat.

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