A prop headstone for Charles Dickens’s character Ebenezer Scrooge which appeared within the 1984 movie A Christmas Carol has been destroyed.
The inscribed stone has been within the grounds of St Chad’s Church in Claremont Hill, Shrewsbury, since filming was accomplished and it turned a vacationer attraction.
The gravestone was vandalised between Thursday and Sunday, West Mercia Police stated.
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George C Scott (R) as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Pic: Mike Forster/ANL/Shutterstock
Footage confirmed it toppled over and smashed into not less than two items.
The film, which was largely filmed on location in Shrewsbury, starred George C Scott as Scrooge.
After going to sleep on Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas previous, current and future, who attempt to persuade him to vary his methods.
The Ghost of Christmas But to Come reveals Scrooge what is going to turn into of his life if he doesn’t change, ultimately taking him to a cemetery the place Scrooge brushes snow from a uncared for headstone, revealing his title.
The revelation causes Scrooge to vow to show his life round.
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‘Vastly disrespectful’
The city is discussing what ought to be accomplished with the “hugely popular” stone, city clerk Helen Ball stated.
“There’s not much to see other than broken bits of the gravestone,” she stated.
“You can’t see that it says Ebenezer Scrooge at the moment because it’s so damaged. It’s hugely disrespectful.”
Calling for poetic justice if the vandal is caught, she added: “If the ghosts of past, present and future would like to visit [the vandals] in the middle of the night and drop them and break them in pieces, I think that would be a perfect punishment.”
