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On 24/07/2013 11:24, Janet wrote:
In article , david@abacus-
nurseries.co.uk says...


Remember we started cremation here in the UK
See

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/pos...s_of_cremation


Of course we didn't; it was used thousands of years earlier

http://crematorium.eu/history_of_cremation.html

Price, as an educated and political man living in the hey day of the
British Raj would certainly have known corpse cremation was long used in
India.

Janet

OK I'll put it another way
Cremation in the UK was started in Wales, with Dr William Price,


 
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