Martyn Webster- Registered: 18 Nov 2017
- Posts: 56
It is fifty years this year since the clearance of the ancient graveyard that adjoined St James' church (the Tidy Ruin) to make way for a car park for the now recently demolished leisure centre.There is fortunately plenty on record about the burials within the church and the burial ground.At the behest of the 1973 Dover Borough Council headstones and vaults were removed and crushed by Walkers of Folkestone,and the human remains exhumed in an operation exceeding all expectations to be reburied in a trench at Charlton Cemetery on the Old Guston Road.Photos show that there was once two rows of vaults at the back of the burial ground and some to the left.No memorial has ever been placed to record this unceremonious removal of Dover's citizens and elsewhere.Surely now is the time to put this to rights?
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,860
It is sad when history gets lost in tim e s when things are required to move on
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