The one thing that has always puzzled me is that I've spent lots of time in and around graveyards, simply because when I was in many a church choir, they were our 'playground' in between services.
You got to know which parish was poor and which had the money. For example, Childwall (all Saints) and Woolton (St Peter's) are probably the two parishes with the most money in the pot, but the situation at St Peter's is bizarre for two reasons.
A, there are lots of graves crammed together, broken or left to the mercy of the weather and the grass
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B, it's a major tourist attraction for obvious reasons.
The problem with cemetries is that if a stone falls, the council go all 'health and safety' and just lay them down whereas a church would be more inclined to have their plot well tended to.
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