WITH reference to the recent reports and letters concerning the sale of the Brockhall and Calderstones cemeteries, I would like to correct the impression that those buried in the Brockhall cemetery had been abandoned and forgotten.

For many years, it was my job at Brockhall to arrange funerals in accordance with the relatives' instructions .

Many asked for the deceased to be buried at Brockhall because, after so many years living there, they felt Brockhall was the deceased's home.

Indeed, in my time those patients with "no known relatives" were usually cremated unless the deceased had expressed other wishes regarding his or her funeral.

Far from not caring, many relatives paid for small memorials to be placed on the graves and continued to visit them.

Alas, it seems that most of these stones have since disappeared. I expect the policy at Calderstones would have been much the same.

As most relatives lived outside the circulation area of your newspaper, most of those still alive will be unaware of the ill-informed statements currently being made about their lack of interest. I am sure if they knew they would be deeply hurt.

D S BUNN, Walden Road, Blackburn.