Police in the town of Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone that marked the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed. The movie prop used in the 1984 adaption of “A Christmas Carol” was kept in place and became a tourist attraction.

A piece of film history has been destroyed by vandals. The gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge used in the 1984 film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol was smashed in a graveyard in Shrewsbury, England. The vandalism has promoted an ...

Police are appealing for more information after vandals in Shrewsbury broke a gravestone that had belonged to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1984 film adaption

Police in the town of Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone that marked the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed.

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"People have been going along sympathising and really having a look at it." He pointed out it was formerly a gravestone that was "unreadable". Martin Wood, who hosts Christmas Carol tours around Shrewsbury and appeared in the film 40 years ago,