Hello Rosie & Listers, Thank you, Rosie for sending this link. I have e-mailed the West Norfolk Planning Department (borough.planning@west-norfolk.gov.uk) and told them of my objections to this plan. I've said they should make every effort to contact families of the dead before they desecrate the graveyard. Martin Fisher Researching COCKS in Hockwold and it's area (includes Methwold) -----Original Message----- From: xpn11 <xpn11@aol.com> To: Nofolk list <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:17 Subject: [NFK] Homes to be built on Methwold Methodist graveyard http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/business-news/homes_to_be_built_on_a_methwold_graveyard_1_3377747 ust seen this and thought I would post it in case there is anyone on he list who has an ancestor interred there and wants to make a last go t looking at headstones or make a last minute objection. A shockingly nsensitive bit of work from the planners, on the same line as that at pwell a while back. osie ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

Perhaps we can get too excited about these things. A graveyard, or a place of worship, can only be preserved if someone pays for it - who should that be? After the huge boom in Methodism in the late 18th and 19th C fizzled out, hundreds of Methodist chapels fell out of use, and many are now private houses or places of business. Our medieval ancestors reused space in graveyards again and again, which is why you so often see that the churchyard has a higher ground level than the church door. The graves of some of my own ancestors - at St. Peter Southgate in Norwich, for example, are now replaced by housing. Only when the repeated re-use of graveyards was recognised in the 1850's as a health hazard was the practice brought to an end and new corporation burial grounds opened. Some of these are now in turn derelict and beg questions about their future. Certainly I agree that records of who was buried where and memorial inscriptions should be recorded before they are obliterated, but it is far too late, at least in England, to worry too much about disturbing graves. We have always done it - google "charnel house" if you don't take my word for it. David -----Original Message----- From: norfolk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norfolk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Martin Fisher Sent: 03 January 2012 20:16 To: norfolk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NFK] Homes to be built on Methwold Methodist graveyard Hello Rosie & Listers, Thank you, Rosie for sending this link. I have e-mailed the West Norfolk Planning Department (borough.planning@west-norfolk.gov.uk) and told them of my objections to this plan. I've said they should make every effort to contact families of the dead before they desecrate the graveyard. Martin Fisher Researching COCKS in Hockwold and it's area (includes Methwold) -----Original Message----- From: xpn11 <xpn11@aol.com> To: Nofolk list <norfolk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:17 Subject: [NFK] Homes to be built on Methwold Methodist graveyard http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/business-news/homes_to_be_built_on_a_methwold _graveyard_1_3377747 ust seen this and thought I would post it in case there is anyone on he list who has an ancestor interred there and wants to make a last go t looking at headstones or make a last minute objection. A shockingly nsensitive bit of work from the planners, on the same line as that at pwell a while back. osie ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message