{"id":494300,"date":"2026-03-25T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:31:10","slug":"only-fools-and-horses-fans-rally-to-repair-uncle-alberts-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494300\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Fools and Horses fans rally to repair Uncle Albert&#8217;s grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Only Fools and Horses fan has vowed to help restore the gravestone of one of the TV show&#8217;s popular characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Buster Merryfield, who played Uncle Albert, died in 1999 and was buried near his home in Verwood, Dorset, but in recent years his headstone has fallen into disrepair and is now wrapped in red and white tape. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photo of Merryfield is cracked and there are some chips on the headstone which is also not secure in its base<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After spotting photos of the damage online, lifelong fan Dave Walton, from Norfolk, decided to see if he could help get it restored and repaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Only Fools and Horses fan has vowed to help restore the gravestone of one of the TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}