November 19, 1976
REDDITCH councillors have ended a 12-year-old ban on angels in the town's three municipal cemeteries.
They have also given the green light to crosses, hearts, books and other traditional gravestone designs.
And after years of regimented rectangular headstones in the Abbey Trading Estate, Plymouth Road, and Edgioake Lane, Astwood Bank, will soon sport a large variety of traditional designs.
Mr Ken Elliott, superintendent of the council's cemeteries and crematorium, has welcomed the news.
Since 1964, the council has refused requests for alternative designs and restricted headstones to rectangles. Officers felt uniformity would be more attractive.
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