Alert the Press to Southwark Council’s destruction of Camberwell Old
and New Cemeteries’ woods and graves
23rd September 2017
TAKE ACTION
Southwark Council is burying over the dead and wants to dig up thousands of graves for new burial plots – with devastating consequences for nature and heritage.
Acres of woods and graves have alrady been lost. But acres remain to be saved.
Stop Southwark bulldozing our cemeteries. Save them as nature reserves.
Dear SSW supporter,
Alert the Press to Southwark Council’s destruction of its cemetery woods and graves
Please express your anger and disgust to your local newspaper or TV station.
Southwark Council is toppling and removing poor people’s memorials in the cemeteries. They are cutting down acres of trees. All this to sell off burial plots on top of the dead. Even the CWGC graves of war heroes are being developed over for new private burial areas. Not enough people know about this.
You can help by emailing, writing, tweeting, instagramming media outlets including:
guardian.letters@theguardian.com
Please tell them, in your own words, what an environmental and heritage disaster this is and ask them to report on it.
This is a scandal.
And please tell them to contact us: savesouthwarkwoods@gmail.com
Thank you.
Blanche Cameron
Friends of Camberwell Cemeteries
Save Southwark Woods Campaign
other war grave memorials
As well as CWGC War Graves, 48,000 other people are also in graves in Area Z – including William Uden, Military Medal recipient (pictured) and many from the WW2 era and later.
One Tree Hill, March 2016
Dozens of trees cut down on One Tree Hill, next to the Nature Reserve, to create burial plots. March 2016.
Area Z
area D1 war graves
area z war graves
ABOVE: Southwark is in the midst of the largest grave exclamation and reuse program in Britain. This is Area Z in the Old Cemetery where 48 war graves are buried.