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<p><i>From OIC Updates on Facebook:</i></p>
<p>Another reminder for communities and individuals with good local
knowledge or ancestry in the islands to help link up memorials
with families.</p>
We’re asking folk to help us link up memorials flagged as needing
safety work with respective families.<br>
Last year, we inspected more than 21,000 memorials in the county’s
cemeteries.<br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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. <br>
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. <br>
You can:<br>
✅ Check the list of unsafe memorials here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.orkney.gov.uk/Files/Burial%20Services/Full%20list%20of%20HHs.pdf">https://www.orkney.gov.uk/Files/Burial%20Services/Full%20list%20of%20HHs.pdf</a><br>
✅ Find out more here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=7098">https://www.orkney.gov.uk/News?postid=7098</a><br>
✅ Contact our Burial Services team by phoning 01856 873535 ext 2703.<br>
<p>This lovely image is of Lady Cemetery in Stronsay.</p>
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