Council leader admits ‘grave error’ in cemetery row
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Photo: Tower Hamlets Cemetery was opened in 1841, and was popularly called Bow Cemetery, after the nearby “Bow’s Bells” of Cockney fame. Beautiful grave art like that shown here is contained in the park.
By Ted Jeory
TOWN Hall leader Denise Jones has given a personal assurance that http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=133 Cemetery park will not be reopened as a multi-faith burial site.
She gave the pledge as the row over the controversial idea to exhume 350,000 bodies continued to boil in London’s East End.
The Town Hall has been attracting critical headlines throughout Britain and beyond.
Now an irritated Cllr Jones has moved to kill the speculation.”It definitely will not happen,” she told the East London Advertiser this week. “It’s just not a viable option.”
There has been widespread public outrage ever since the paper first revealed exclusively on October 4 that the authority was considering an option to reopen the former Bow Cemetery in Mile End.
The authority’s environment Lead member Abdal Ullah had said all 350,000 bodies would have to be removed if the idea was to see the light of day to meet the demands for religious burials.