Memorial plaque for stillborn babies buried in mass graves

A MEMORIAL plaque has gone up in Oldham to commemorate the hundreds of babies buried in unmarked graves in the borough.

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The plinth was installed in Royton Cemetery exactly a year after a mass grave containing the bodies of 145 stillborn children, 128 babies and young kids and 29 adults was discovered there.

The discovery shook the local community, exposing the historic practice of removing stillborn babies from their parents and burying them in communal graves without their knowledge or consent.

The memorial plinth, made of rust-effect metal, has been placed next to a bench overlooking the largest unmarked grave in the cemetery.