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Disgusted!!! How can they justify it?!?!?!
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 09:59 |
I have just contacted my local cemetaries office for plot maps for 2 cemeteries where my relatives are buried, and have been quoted £75!!!! |
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CLW2005 | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:06 |
Yep!!! |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:13 |
Rosehill & Headington cemeteries in Oxford. |
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CLW2005 | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:22 |
Yes - mine was a large London cemetery too. |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:24 |
Thanks Von, |
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Andrew | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:26 |
If its council run, they are strapped for cash and will charge for everything they can. |
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Sam | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:28 |
I agree it is outrageous. |
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CLW2005 | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:28 |
Did you say you have the plot numbers? |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:36 |
Christine, |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:37 |
Forgot to mention that I have also thought of talking to the groundsmen, but they are never there everytime I have visited - get the feeling I would be charged for finding out his working hours too! lol |
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CLW2005 | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:41 |
you may know this already - so apologies if you do |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 10:45 |
I would really love to be able to help other people out by doing this as part of my research - will also mean that i check every grave for my family. |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 11:02 |
I understand completely that they are funded / rely on donations etc etc, and was willing to pay for the cost of the copying / postage, but I think £75 is taking the mickey! |
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CLW2005 | Report | 26 Sep 2008 11:33 |
You could always email them for a 'breakdown' of costs! |
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Melster | Report | 26 Sep 2008 11:40 |
Gosh .. that's a lot. |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 11:42 |
Wow! Where do you live Melanie? Maybe I need to move there... lol |
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Karen | Report | 26 Sep 2008 11:44 |
Just asked for a breakdown of costs - wish me luck.... |
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MarilynB | Report | 26 Sep 2008 12:09 |
Thats ridiculous, I have maps of the five main cemeteries in Manchester sent to me no charge, Blackley, Gorton, Manchester General, Phillips Park and Manchester Southern. You would have to have the actual grave number but would be happy to send them to anyone to see where the plots are if anyone is interested. |
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George_of_Westbury | Report | 26 Sep 2008 12:13 |
Well i am amazed at such cost, i have recently helped 2 people who had requested photographs of headstones. On both occasions i went to cemetery office, admittedly i had the plot numbers, but i was given a map,and they even told me to grab of of the groundsman, who would actually escort me to the plot in question, which he did. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Sep 2008 12:38 |
I wouldn't dream of paying that sort of money. The cemetery in Hartlepool where a lot of my rellies are buried are very helpful. They will give you a cemetery map and mark on it where your relly is buried. |