Wigan Album

The vandals who perform these actions obviously have nothing between their ears. The only way that they would realise some of the pain felt by the owners of this once beautiful memorial, would be for someone to smash up their computers, Their games, MP3 players and anything that they valued. But as they are brain dead and stoned out of their minds most of the time, they probably wouldn't notice anyway.

I remember this headstone. I believe it's in the lower section and is not far from my grandparents grave.

Unfortunately, only the supports are now present. I don't know when the glass was removed.

Hopefully the glass was removed by a member of the Gregson family for safe keeping, I hope so. Thanks for posting the photo.

What a wonderful and unusual "headstone", a contradiction in terms I know. In the course of doing genealogy I've visited many cemeteries but never come across anything this unusual. Well done for putting on the site for all to see.

I wrote several articles on this gravestone and was "mortified" when someone told me it had collapsed. I have a small peace as a paperweight in my study.
It looked particularly spectacular in foggy weather or at sunset on a summer's night.
Geoffrey Shryhane

Geoffrey - good to see your own photo of the memorial in this week's OBSERVER, with a bit more detail about its origins.