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This is a picture from the Beechworth Cemetery located in the Australian state of Victoria.
You can read more about my visit to the cemetery at the below link:
on-walkabout.com/2007/08/on-walkabout-in-the-beechworth-c...
l-r: scalloped; Kleiber Headstone; Faintly Ethel; Norma
One thing I noticed about this cemetery was the proliferation of natural rock headstones - which I really like.
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Merthyr Dyfan Cemetery, Barry, Wales. This is the oldest grave still with a headstone we've found so far of any of my family.
It amuses me when grave markers are so inadvertently creepy like this. "We are children of the dammed and we are going to kill you. Here, have some flowers."
I guess everything looks eerier in a cemetery.
Check out the awesome crypt facade in the back.
Cementiri de Montjuïc: Barcelona, Catelonia, Spain.
May 2011
Redcar Cemetery
"The Paccitto family first came to the United Kingdom, in 1897/1898, (104 years ago) from Italy. Their first visit was understood to be temporary, and they returned shortly back to Italy. Late in 1898, the Paccitto family returned to England, and Giocoso Paccitto, began a chain of shops starting with a cafe premises/ice cream in Norton Road, Stockton. These premises have long since gone under the demolition bulldozer. They re-sited their shop premises, which are still there in Stockton, along Yarm Road/Dovecot Street junction.
Giocoso started the shops located in Redcar in 1924. The ‘Nova Bar’ on The Esplanade, Redcar, (now long gone) became a favourite for an ice cream in the early days of Redcar. If you are old enough you should be able to remember the premises, over the other side of the road from the pier ballroom.
The present Esplanade premises (next to M & S) are now owned by Mike & George Paccitto. Both premises were running side by side until the ‘Nova Bar’ was demolished. Shortly after this, the family business extended into the High Street. During this time the family expanded further, to the well-known seaside town of Scarborough.
A local thought is that people think that both the Redcar shops are connected all the way through from the High Street to The Esplanade. This is quite untrue, and is in fact separate shops." www.redcar.org
Mosher Family Cemetery - located behind the barn. I jumped the fence to shoot the gravestones while I waited for Anne to return.
Plot 37: Alfred Gilbert Godsmark (47) 1930
40542 Pte
A. G. GODSMARK
Auckland Regt
died 16-5-1930
N.Z.E.F
DEATHS.
GODSMARK.—On May 16, 1930, at the Auckland Hospital, Alfred Gilbert Godsmark, late of Niue Island; aged 47 years.
The funeral will leave Fraser's (late Weir), mortuary, 70, Ponsonby Road, to-day (Saturday), at 2 p.m., for the Soldiers Plot, Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19300517.2.2.5
Memorial notice placed for Alfred 14 years after his death:
GODSMARK, — Alfred Gilbert, May 16, 1930. The body is weak, but the spirit lives on.—lnserted by his loving wife. Ahome. and children. Nita, Celia, Gilbert.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19440516.2.5
View Alfred’s military personnel file on line:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServle...
View and/or contribute to Alfred’s profile on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph data base:
www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/recor...
Concluding services at the Naalehu Cemetery for Mathan David. Many people have arrived and have parked their vehicles around the grave. Many of them will sit inside their vehicles to observe the most solemn rite in the human family. It provides me with the opportunity to take photos of graves of people I knew on Ujelang Atoll. Some have their photo taken around a photo I took of Mathan on Ujelang in the mid-70s.
I asked if it was OK to take photos, and was encouraged to do so - for remembering purposes. I tried to be respectful at all times of event and the mourners present.
Kejbarok wot.
Greenwood Cemetery open in 1869 after being converted from a farm, and covers 43 acres. It is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. Benjamin Rush (a signer of the Declaration of Independence) lived on the farm in the late 1700s. Over the years, Greenwood's fortunes declined. The cemetery became a target for vandalism and many headstones were toppled and broken. Maintenance became sporadic and vegetation began to consume the cemetery. Only the front third of the cemetery is cleared enough to walk through unimpeded. The rear of the cemetery has reverted to forest with trees springing up through the middle of graves. It is not an unusual sight to see a headstone pinioned between two trees. The Knights of Pythias, upset over conditions at Greenwood, tried unsuccessfully to have their name removed from the cemetery. The court has appointed Gloria Boyd & Kevin Lynch custodians of the cemetery on a temporary basis. They are in charge of getting the grounds in repair and arranging burials. The decision on a permanent owner will be at a later date.