Thread: BROOKWOOD CEMETERY - photo please

Kelly

Hi Guys,

Its privatly owned as the email tells me, i recieved the email back from them today.

Dear Kelly

Thank you for your email.

Brookwood Cemetery is private property and although we welcome visitors, all
visitors have to abide by our rules and regulations
http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/rul...egulations.htm

Photography is not permitted in the cemetery (rule 35) except with a
photographic permit, and photographs of memorials can only be taken with the
permission of the grave owner countersigned by the company (rule 7).

We do offer a grave search service for friends and relatives with a varying
scale of charges depending on the depth of information required.
http://www.brookwoodcemetery.com/grave_search.htm

Yours sincerely

John Clarke
For Brookwood Cemetery Ltd


-----Original Message-----
From: kelly77@ancestryaid.co.uk [mailto:kelly77@ancestryaid.co.uk]
Sent: 21 April 2008 14:24
To: enquiries@brookwoodcemetery.com
Subject: visits

*Hi There,

I am researching my family tree and a friend of mine has kindly asked if
i could
lookup a grave for her, i said i would, and just assumed i could walk
right on in.
It seems i have to get your permission first, is this right? I would
also like to take
some pictures, is this possible?.
Could you please tell me how to go about this in the right way.

Thankyou

Kelly*

lozzie

Well I never!!

This is the first time I have heard of charges for photos!!

Maybe....just a little maybe....if they are using the fees they charge to preserve and protect the cemetry then all well an good.

Still a shock though!

I've been over to Staffordshire Moorlands a few times and the little country Chapels are open for you to go in
( churches wouldnt dare leave their doors unlocked in a city!) In some of them they have also transcribed all the remaining gravestones...with plot number etc...

I always take a photo of the page transcription and then go out into the graveyard and take photos of the stones themselves.

They also have a collection box inside the Chapel....I always leave a coupla quid to aid them as they are providing a wonderful service to genos!

Oops soz for ramblling

Hope it works out for you Mazz

Loz

maxdemonkey

Hi Kelly

not that I didn't beleive you about this, I was just very surprised that they charged for taking photos, now u mentioned it I did know that it was private land but had forgotten.

maz66

hi Kelly
well thats answered that really hasnt it. Please dont go to any more trouble, I will contact them myself to save you the trouble and find out what they charge, maybe one day ill splash out and treat myself! Thanks ever so much for going to so much trouble for me, but I suppose its taught us all a bit about how things are "a changing".
thanks again
love Maz
Thanks for the best wishes Loz