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From: "Ann McClean" <>
Subject: Baptist Chape, Upwelll - more news
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:39:55 +0100

From the Upwell Message Board:http://www.upwellvillage.co.uk/index.htm
Baptist Church
Posted on July 21, 2006 at 23:16:23 by Concerned Resident

"If anyone thought the contoversial subject of the Upwell Baptist Church had
been buried (excuse the pun) then they were wrong. Remember the public
notice that the owner/developer placed in the paper stating that Mr & Mrs
Melton could have access to thier relatives grave, and that the War grave
could remain ? Well, having stopped the proposed exhumation of PO 'Tim'
Hargraves by the War Graves Commission, and saying that the headstone could
be returned, the owner is now going back on his word. Now that he has the
property for sale he is preventing the War Graves Commission from replacing
the headstone. So PO Hargraves now rests in and unmarked plot. It's such a
shame that such a young man who gave his life in defending this country is
now the subject of a thoughtless, greedy property developer. Surely a lovely
clean white headstone is not going to be detrimental to selling this Baptist
Church, especially with so much significance attatched. I gather the
developer is not divulging the fact that the entire front and sides of the
property is a burial ground anyway, so one headstone doesn't really
matter.... does it ?"

To repeat myself, maybe the sales agents should be informed of this fact?
http://www.harrisonmurray.co.uk/property_detail.php?id=012557

Regards, Ann McClean
in Llanmerewig, Mid-Wales, U.K.

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Destruction of headstones at Upwell Baptist Chapel:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Church&Chapel/Clearance/index.html
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