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This will seem an odd question I expect. In UK cemeteries it is quite common. not pervasive but common enough to be noticeable, to see a grave decorated with items like a can of beer, a football scarf, or a photo of the occupant's car. There's no shortage of angels and similar twee ornaments in the cemetery featured in gate(less). The big metallic spheres are impressive. But no tins of Bud, for example. (Bearing in mind that American beer is so horrible even the dead don't appreciate it).

From time to time a vicar who is above the common herd will ban these icky working class memorials and I wondered if the (very beautiful) gate(less) cemetery has rigorous byelaws of a similar kind.

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