[Stronsaylimpet] OIC - memorials needing safety work

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/From OIC Updates on Facebook:/

Another reminder for communities and individuals with good local 
knowledge or ancestry in the islands to help link up memorials with 
families.

We’re asking folk to help us link up memorials flagged as needing safety 
work with respective families.
Last year, we inspected more than 21,000 memorials in the county’s 
cemeteries.
Of these, 56 were identified as being hazardous, many of them very old - 
the average age of the memorials needing to be made safe is over 100 years.
With the passage of time we think many are unlikely to be in the care of 
very close relatives, so, if you think you may be able to help us link 
up memorials with families before any works are undertaken, please visit 
our website at the link below and take a look.
Our Burial Service team plans to start a programme of works to ‘make 
safe’ the identified memorials in April. We’re urging people with family 
members buried in Orkney to check the list and contact us as soon as 
possible if they want to discuss a memorial flagged as unsafe.
The Council has a duty of care to the public to keep our cemeteries 
safe. Families are responsible for the cost of maintaining memorials, 
including keeping them in safe condition.
For unsafe memorials, where no-one comes forward to arrange remedial 
works, the memorial will be made safe by the Council.  In some cases the 
memorial will need to be laid flat to make it safe - but if this is done 
the memorial will be laid face up, on a slight slant to ensure that 
water can run off.
You can:
✅ Check the list of unsafe memorials here: 
https://www.orkney.gov.uk/Files/Burial%20Services/Full%20list%20of%20HHs.pdf
✅ Find out more here: https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=7098
✅ Contact our Burial Services team by phoning 01856 873535 ext 2703.

This lovely image is of Lady Cemetery in Stronsay.

May be an image of outdoors
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