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Parish Council News Memorial Headstones The Parish Council is to start soon in making safe memorial headstones considered a risk to visitors, and plan general improvements in Section C at the Hinckley Road Cemetery. The Parish Council has made an effort to trace the relatives of loved ones interred there, but in a few cases it has proved difficult to make contact with descendants or elicit any response. In order to trace the relatives and give families the opportunity to take remedial action to make sure the stability of memorials meets required standards before this work is carried out, please see the following letter from the Parish Council indicating its proposals, a list detailing the graves involved where stones will be laid flat, giving the section, plot and grave number followed by the family name, and a list of Stone Masons. We would urge any relatives to get in touch as soon as possible to tell us you want to get repairs done. Contact 01455 212805.
STOKE GOLDING PARISH COUNCIL Dear With reference to the SAFETY INSPECTIONS – Hinckley Road Cemetery, Stoke Golding. Section: ___ Plot ___ Grave reference No _______ According to our records you are the registered owner of the above grave at Hinckley Road Cemetery, Stoke Golding. If the address or ownership details are incorrect please could you telephone or write to us urgently to let us know. We believe that we have already written to you about this matter and if you have attended to your grave in the meantime would you be kind enough to let us know. As previously explained, unfortunately, during the inspection the stonework on the grave in your ownership was found to be unstable and a temporary support may have been installed. The Parish Council is only able to make the memorial safe and it is the responsibility of the owner of the grave rights to ensure that any memorial is maintained in a safe condition. Local stone masons have been informed that the inspection has taken place and we recommend you contact the original supplier of the stone who may be willing to re-fix it at no cost to yourself under the terms of your purchase agreement. Some names and contact details of local stone masons are attached although of course the Parish Council can make no specific recommendation as to who you approach to have the work done. I would be grateful if you could confirm by 31st August 2010 that you will arrange to have the memorial stone work properly secured. This work must be carried out by 31st October 2010 and must be carried out by a NAMM accredited stone mason. If we do not hear from you, the Council will need to make the memorial safe, which in some cases may mean laying the memorial flat. This work will be carried out from 1st November 2010 onwards. The Parish Council is in the process of planning general improvements in Section C of the Cemetery in which the grave for which you are responsible may lie. Residents of Stoke Golding will be fully informed about these as the time approaches but as you may no longer reside in the village we would like to give you an outline of these. The intention is to bring Section C up to match the high standard of the rest of the Cemetery by levelling the ground and turfing between the graves and around any headstones that have had to be laid down. Where graves are regularly tended these arrangements will be respected and work will be done in a sensitive manner. The aim will be ensure that subsequent maintenance will be able to keep the surroundings neat and tidy. I thank you in anticipation of your co-operation in the hope that we can work together to ensure that Hinckley Road Cemetery, Stoke Golding remains a safe environment for all visitors. Yours sincerely Mrs J E Jones,
Parish Clerk , Stoke Golding Parish Council Section A, Right of Path Plot 2: Grave No: 34 (E Chaplin); Plot 4: Grave No: ? (M Craven); Plot 5: Grave Nos: 38/37 (M Carratt); Plot 6: Grave Nos: 47/48 (LA & G Clarke)
Section A, Left of Path Plot 6: Grave No: 22 (CE & MA Atkinson); Plot 3: Grave No: 3 ( F Hood)
Section B, Right of Path Plot 9: Grave No: 16 (M A Briggs); Plot 11: Grave No: 3 (C Kirkland); Plot 12: Grave No: 6 (T & GM Baisley); Plots 13: Grave No: 15 (M Frisby); Grave No: 13 (JH & M Baker); Plots 14: Grave No: 12 (A & EE Mayne); Grave No: 14 (J H Jackson); Grave No: 15 (B M Clifford); Plot 20: Grave No: B18 (W C Morris)
Section B, Left of Path Plot 1: Grave No 6 M Earley; Plot 2: Grave No: 2 (A Earley); Plots 7: Grave No: 1 (L Reynolds); Grave No: 5 (A & S Hood) Plot 8: Grave No: 12 (A, WG, SA & G Doane)
Section C, Right of Path Grave Nos: 66 (L M Hunter); 106 (TVB & FL Swain); 122 (G G Dewis); 139 (P T Turner); 19 (E & J Underwood); 2 (FW & K Brown); 126 (J W Hoberton); 134 (RA Jones); 111 (CG & EA Wright); 95 (VA Pickering); 71 (SW & FM Corbett); 41 (H & E Hill); 39 (DM & B Skelton); 15 (L & WE Shurmer); 94 (KB & CF Quinney); 52 (E Hughes); 68 (P & E Wright): 92 (W E Dickman-Wilkes); 124 (SR & A Woolley); 132 (KS Geary); 77 (A & BA Allen); 6 (GE & FW Geary); 120 (W F Goode); 136 (ER Tinkler)
Section D, Left of Path Grave No 10 (W E Aucott)
Cremation Plots Right of Memorial Grave Nos: 15 (J Bartlett); 27 (EJR Selby); 9 (GP Mayne)
Memorial Stone Masons
G Seller & Co Ltd 75 Upper Bond Street, HIncley Tel: 01455 637457
A J Murray 48 Lower Bond Street, Hinckley Tel: 01455 233974
McCartneys Funeral Services 47 Coventry Road, Hinckley Tel: 01455 637138
D B Devall Funeral Directors Wembrook House, The Green, Attleborough, Nuneaton Tel; 02476 375665
A message from Stoke Golding Parish Council -14th July 2010 We are sure that many people in the village will have been saddened, as we were, to find serious damage had been done to the new play area at the bottom of the Recreation Field on Sunday evening. What appears to have happened is that some people took advantage of the fact that the Rec would be quiet due to the World Cup Final being played and decided to set fire to the safety matting under the Team swing. This must have required not only strength but considerable forward planning. By good luck the dancing class in the Hall finished at 8.15 p.m. and members of the group called the fire brigade who attended very quickly and were able to confine the damage to one area. However the damage caused is costed at least £1300. The Parish Council has been delighted by the positive response to the works done at the Recreation Field over the past few months and with the pleasure so many people – young and old – have been already having from using the path and the new equipment. We would like to assure residents that all will be done to re-instate the area as quickly as possible – and it is hoped that most of cost of repairing the damage will be covered by insurance. The burnt matting has been removed and new matting down. Because the overall height of the swing is 2 metres safety matting is a legal requirement. As soon as possible the damaged turf area will be repaired. The best way of ensuring that such criminal damage does not re-occur is by community vigilance – so please keep using the field and should you have any suspicions report them to the Parish Council Clerk or a member of the Parish Council. Meanwhile this case of arson has been reported to the Police who are taking the matter very seriously. Should you have any information that could help them with their enquiries please get in touch with PC Armstrong on 01162 222 222 – his own number is PC 2116 and the Crime Number is: SH/4739/10- Update from the Police
- 17/07/10
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