"My Grandfathers grave"

A review of Edmonton Cemetery by David Laing written on Thursday 24th of January 2008

My paternal grandfather Daniel Laing died in 1942, 7 years before my birth. I migrated to Australia in 1957 and only returned to the UK in 2005 for a holiday. My only surviving relative, an uncle, aged in his nineties, knew his dad was buried in the Edmonton Cemetery, but the years had faded his memory, and he had no recollection of the location of the grave.

After a phone call to the Enfield cemetery administration, they kindly searched their records and phoned me back with the exact location. We went to the grave and found the site in a state of disrepair, with weeds covering the grave and the head stone leaning at a precarious angle. We returned the next day with some tools and cleared the weeds and righted the headstone. I never knew my grand dad, but I felt close to him after we'd finished our work. .

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