SIR – I cannot comment on the extent of Bradford Council’s responsibility for the upkeep of St Michael’s churchyard in Haworth or on their efforts to meet any responsibility they may have.
However, I do feel the work of a local volunteer should not be overlooked.
For five years or more, a local man has devoted a great deal of his time to working in the churchyard. Every year he removes more than 50 barrow-loads of leaf mould from graves in the older parts of the burial ground.
He also regularly cuts the grass in much of the churchyard.
The one part which he does not attempt to cut is section D (in which John and Ethel Holmes’s grave is situated) as the undertaking would simply be too great.
It should be pointed out he has spent a considerable amount of his own money on plants for the flowerbeds which he has created.
As a local historian with a great interest in Haworth church and its graveyard I, for one, am very grateful to him.
Steven Wood, Stone Street, Haworth
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