Welsh cemeteries are dead good
Three Welsh burial sites won top prizes at the 2008 Cemetery of the Year Awards last night. Thornhill Cemetery and Crematorium in Cardiff won the National Asociation of Memorial Masons’ freedom of choice award, The pet cemetery at Brynford, Holywell, won an honourable mention in pet sites and Usk Castle Chase Natural Burial Ground, Monmouth, was a category winner in green burial sites.
The highly prestigious Memorial Awareness Board awards ceremony was held last night at the Chesford Grange Hotel in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, as part of the Institute for Cemetery and Crematorium Management annual conference.
The prizes were presented by Howard Hodgson, entrepreneur and author of How to Become Dead Rich, and MAB Chairman, Gerald Priestman.