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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
If those people who now lay in the churchyard were now still alive, what do you think their attitude would be? I suspect it would certainly not be a mixture of overt religious sentimentality combined with toxic luddism but would in fact be one which embraces the Victorian ideals of progress and change and an attitude which says get on with it. Of course, this is all academic; I doubt if we shall ever see the money for this scheme (or the Arcade one) to go ahead.
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Errrm, actually 'T', the Victorian age was characterised by overt sentimentality in all areas of society and nowhere was this expressed more strongly than in matters of mortality and the rituals and parephenalia of death. Indeed, poor Queen Victoria managed to turn mourning into a fashionable and very profitable national industry. From which I am sure that the idea of turning a burial ground, with burials still in it and a churchyard burial ground at that, into an area of, as I said before, facile entertainment, would be abhorent and a cause of national scandal to our Victorian forebears.
I am not being in the least luddite in objecting to the proposal as it currently stands. I just want the bodies removed and reburied before we commence holding performances on top of them. At base, it is a matter of simple respect and courtesy. I am surprised and a little amazed that you cannot see this.