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Jennypeg
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St. John's Church, Heanor
replied on: 11/14/2005 2:40:47 PM

could this be the reason the headstones were removed?
Ripley & Heanor 1977
Aldercar’s New Vicarage
More protest over burial ground

Protests to the church commissioners about the plans to build a new vicarage in the old graveyard at Aldercar Parish Church are to be made by Ilkeston, Heanor and Eastwood Trades Union Council.
Mrs. Jessie Harrison told the council on Wednesday week: “Has all respect gone for the people you lose? I have got people in that churchyard and it breaks my heart to think anything like this is going to happen” She and others were disgusted with the idea, she said.
Recently Amber Valley District Council gave planning permission for the vicarage and an adjoining small meeting room.
Coun. Geoff Holmes, who is a member of the district council and delegate to the Traders Union Council, said there had been an indication that a number of people were perturbed. But planning applications had to be dealt with purely on planning grounds.
“Those who are upset about this should make representations to the church commissioners. They are the people who have the option of either taking up the planning permission or not, they are the people who at the end of the day will decide if there’s going to be one there,” he said.
NO DESECRATION
Rev. Ernest Fisher, Vicar of Langley Mill and Aldercar, has said several times recently that there will be no desecration or disturbance of the burial ground and that the new vicarage will be built on the oldest part – which was covered in weeds when he arrived about five years ago. “Nobody is going around digging up coffins and there will be no disturbance,” he said.
The four- bed roomed house and adjoining meeting room would be built on a floating base, which would leave the graveyard intact.

Jenny

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