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taper

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  1. "To genuinely provide burial for all - especially those for whom burial is the only option - Southwark would have to provide it out of the borough. They promised to investigate this in 2012 and never have. "


    Genuine question: if Southwark used new space for the purposes of burial (eg "HO Nature Corridor") then orthodox religious groups could have dedicated burial provision couldn't they?

  2. rendelharris Wrote:

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    > Blanche Cameron Wrote:

    > --------------------------------------------------

    > -----

    >

    > > William Stanlake VC was buried in a public

    > grave,

    > > only recently rediscovered and a headstone put

    > up

    > > for him - by the Victoria Cross society not by

    > > Southwark Council who would have dug him up

    > > without even looking.

    >

    > Looking online at the Coldstream Guards message

    > board and others, it appears that Stanlake's grave

    > was in the middle of the very areas of tangled

    > undergrowth you want to save, so how could anyone

    > have known it was there or gone to pay their

    > respects? It seems that as with so many things

    > you swing through 180 degrees depending on which

    > argument suits your cause, it really doesn't help

    > your credibility.



    I searched out Stanlake's grave last year. As you say, it's among the scrub in the "wooded" bit of COC. The Coldstream Guards association has cleared a path and the immediate area around it so it's accessible. And they've put a stone up (outside CWGC's locus as it's a Crimean VC).


    Stanlake was a bit of a character by the sound of it. Died impoverished in Camberwell.

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