Damage at Bromley
Granite headstones and marble crosses lie broken in the Bromley Cemetery, the result of increasing forays by vandals.
“Many little marble angels have been just smashed to smithereens,” said the sexton (Mr B. Walker). “They just pick the best to damage. I have to advise people not to put anything elaborate on new graves, because it will just be destroyed.”
Even the steel barrier arm preventing vehicular entry from Keighleys Avenue was torn down several times before it was finally removed by thieves. Mr Walker said two reasons for the mounting destruction might be a new subdivision across Keighleys Avenue and an adjacent paddock where motorcyclists played.
Youths from 10 to 14 probably did most of the
heavy damage, he said. In December, sandals smashed the marble gravestones of sesen priests. At one grave site near the cemetery boundary, relatives had set a headstone on its side in new concrete, so that it could not be pushed over, Mr Walker said. Initials had been scratched on a nearby gravestone.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 1
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