I went into my local cemetry today, as a result of a family bereavement. In there are many headstones lying on the ground with little white tags on them. These have been felled by the recreation dept because they consider them unsafe.
These memorials to the dead are not the size of house sides but normal old gravestones. My wife informs me this is because somewhere else in the country a tombstone fell onto a child who was playing near to it and it unfortunately killed them. Unfortunate and tragic as this may be, does this make it right to tear apart the memorials of others.

I do believe that the council have nothing but disrespect for anything above a certain age. How many old but historically interesting buildings have been demolished after being classed as 'dangerous' when I'm sure they could have easily budgetted for repairs and maintainance? Think of the money that was spent to build the eggbox then to tear it down; what about the efforts to make Sheffield the music centre of the North or the sports centre or the business centre? What next?

Thanks for your interest, however I was interested in the demolition of memorials to those who have gone before us.
rather than the demolition of the elected council.

Please use the search facility as, if you had, you would have come across this thread:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2695

which followed on from the death of a child. I think you'll find that the argument in favour of protecting the lives of children far outweighs any support of dangerous memorials.

but should children be allowed to run riot in a grave yard is this not disrespectfull? The grave yard where i live closes at 8 and big gates are locked so no one can get in because of the problems with children playing on it. The grave stones may be dangerous but only to children using it as a play ground!