RELATIVES are being asked to get in touch with Fenland Council after a safety inspection threw up concerns with headstones and memorials at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Wisbech.
Among the gravestones inspected – and where a note has been attached- is the headstone of George Frederick Albert Brown who died in 1801 aged 21.
A note has also been attached to the headstone of bulb grower Theodore Adrianus Prins who died in June 1953 aged 55: his wife Frances Ena died in 1986 and she is also buried alongside.
Fenland Council says inspectors have begun work at both the Wisbech cemetery and another in New Road, Chatteris.
The council says it is important to check that memorials 'do not pose a danger to people visiting and working in the cemetery.
A council spokesman said: 'We have started a rolling programme of inspections which are to be carried out across the district during 2013 and 2014.
'Following a detailed risk assessment a schedule has been drawn up for each cemetery.'
The spokesman said: 'Where remedial action is identified as potentially being necessary a notice is carefully attached to the memorial requesting that the owner make contact so that options for repair can be discussed.
'Each notice is carefully attached to the memorial and positioned so that it is clearly visible.
'In some circumstances we may have to lay the headstone flat to minimise the risk of an accident.'
Fenland Council suggests those who own the plots contact a mason to make the memorial more secure.
The council says it will re-inspect in six months to check the work has been carried out.
Over the last 35 years, eight people in the UK have been killed when a memorial has fallen on them.
The Government argues that 'given the number of memorials and number of visitors to burial grounds in any year, the risk of any injury is extremely low'.
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