WHO made the decision to place miniature scaffolding on the gravestones at Whitworth Road Cemetery?
It is certainly not for safety reasons, as there are many more stones that would fall with a touch of a finger.
Whoever it was they should try, like me in my 80s to remove the long grass around the base and halfway up the pole where the mower cannot reach.
Or try to arrange the flowers between the pole and the stone.
My brother, who worked in management for the town council for 35 years, is as puzzled as I am.
On to Wroughton cemetery to attend my wife’s mother’s grave, some leaning stones, but not a pole in sight.
The grass expertly mowed around the base of the grave and flowers can easily be arranged from a comfortable position. There are no poles hammered into hallowed ground.
We have a cemetery in Cardiff twice the size of Whitworth Road and not a pole in sight. So this is not an EU directive for safety, so perhaps someone could state the reason for these being installed at a cost to the rate payer.
EDWARD GRIFFITHS Barnwood Crescent Cardiff
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