A FARNHAM woman was left feeling shocked and angry this week after visiting the grave of her son only to find that the cemetery had been littered with more than 100 signs calling on plot owners to fix 'unsafe' memorials. Stella Perry has been visiting her son's grave at Green Lane Cemetery each year on his birthday for the last 40 years and described signs erected by Farnham Town Council as "horrendous". The council has this week reminded residents that the upkeep of graves and memorials are the responsibility of the plot owners and not the council. More than 100 notices warning against dangerous graves and calling on the owners to fix them have been strapped to headstones and crosses in cemeteries across the area. Apart from looking unsightly, Mrs Perry told The Herald that they are "upsetting" and called on the council to go about it in a more sensitive manner. "It was such a shock the other day when my husband and I went down there, it just looks awful," she said. "Why on earth can't they put a sign on the gate saying that the graves with a ribbon on them are unsafe? Putting a small ribbon on the offending stones would be better than putting up all these signs everywhere." She went on to say that when entering the cemetery she was confronted with a "sea of signs" lined up at the back of the memorial park. "I couldn't believe it. It's just so ugly and people don't need anything else like this to upset them while they visit their loved ones' graves. I'll be there myself one day and I don't want it to be looking like this." Town clerk Roland Potter explained that the owners of grave sites must maintain their own graves and signs would be placed on those deemed unsafe by the council. "There are around 3,000 graves in Green Lane Cemetery and we've put up just over 100 signs where the memorials have been deemed to be unsafe and we've been required to do this," he said. "The responsibility of the graves and the memorials is the responsibility of the owners but a lot of these signs are on the older sections of the cemeteries." When asked if the signs would be removed in future Mr Potter was clear. "They will be removed when the people who own the graves have made them safe."