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Heartfelt ... Alfie Harris wants yobs to stop wrecking his granddad’s memorial
Heartfelt ... Alfie Harris wants yobs to stop wrecking his granddad’s memorial
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Please show some respect

Damon Wilkinson
21/ 5/2008

A SEVEN-year-old boy has put pen to paper in a bid to stop thieves stealing ornaments from his granddad’s memorial.

Alfie Harris, of Smithy Bridge, wrote a letter to the Observer aimed at the yobs who repeatedly steal mementoes from the wooded area at Watergrove Reservoir.

He wrote: "My granddad died in 2003 and my grandma had a tree planted at the Life for a Life at Watergrove.

"I would like to report that whoever is stealing the little things I put up there to remember my granddad, like the little glass angel, granddad’s garden stone, a wreath and some flowers. They are not very nice people. I put them up there to remember my granddad."

Alfie’s granddad, ex-councillor Roy Chesney, died aged 66 in 2003 and the family planted a tree at the memorial forest on the banks of Watergrove a year later.

But since then the site has been repeatedly targeted by vandals.

Alfie’s mum Carol said: "He is really aggrieved at the fact that whatever he puts up there gets stolen.

"At first he thought that maybe his granddad was coming down from heaven and taking the things, but as he has got older he realised that they were being stolen and it has really annoyed him.

"He has just got fed up and thinks there is no point because whatever he does for his granddad just gets stolen.

"He always asks what is in the Observer and one day I was reading the letters page.

"He then decided he should write a letter about his granddad and the problems he is having. We helped him and read through it but it is all his own work.

"Hopefully it might make the people who are doing it think twice."


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   Anonymouse thanks for your comments and the point of the wardens are noted, however, the items were mainly small and/or discrete. There are many other tree positions that are as you say 'grave like'and remain untouched!
Paul_H
30/05/2008 at 14:00
   In 2001 we buried my baby daughter in Rochdale cemetry, we had the same problem there with ornaments, toys, flowers all being stoel or broken, I went to the papers and we had to seperate write ups but nothing seemed to work. I even laminated a photo of her so they could see if was the resting place of a baby but the sick morons as the paper named them stole the photo also. Eventually it died down and they must have got bored. I understand how heart breaking these things are when they happen and how you want to go and remember your loved ones in peace but in a way dread what you will face when arriving. I so hope these sick people stop and you can remember your grandad in peace. As one day it will be there loved ones being remembered and i can only hope they will realise the things that have done. My thoughts are with you all x
LadieMuck, Muckinham Palace
26/05/2008 at 00:45
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