WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[trish251]

Whoopi-doo, Ruskie - more WDYTYA!!!!

I'll be watching Friday and Sunday!

Trish, the best way to protect cemeteries, I think, is to have local historians study them and do tours of them.  If anyone tried to reuse graves here, there would be a huge commotion!  And it isn't a designated historical cemetery!

MarieC

Clem Jones (or City Hall - but he WAS City Hall) attempted to remove many of the Toowong Graves in the 60s or 70s - some did go before an outcry stopped it. I don't think anything has been attempted in Brisbane since that time.

Some of the cemeteries I visited in NSW are on the most magnificent pieces of real estate - often on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean - vigilence is certainly needed.

Trish

[deeiluka]

A friend of mine found out that his grandparents graves were being reused, and the stones got rid of. So he claimed them and they now stand in his garden. When he leaves this world, one of his sons is going to have them.

......dee

[Ruskie]

For any Aussies interested in the UK episode being shown next Sunday and who are not familiar with the personalities featured:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/02qy/

You may know AR if you watch "Dirty Tricks" (on the ABC I think).

PS. And "At home with the Braithwaites" 

[trish251]

For any Aussies interested in the UK episode being shown next Sunday and who are not familiar with the personalities featured:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/02qy/

You may know AR if you watch "Dirty Tricks" (on the ABC I think).

She was also in At Home With The Braithwaites the first series of same was hilarious - I did so enjoy it.

Trish

[perth tiger]

i would like to have seen a bit more of the tree they found been followed, but saying that it was very enjoyable and she was lucky that so much had been saved.
amanda redman next week is very good

perth

[MarieC]

Trish

Hadn't known that about Clem Jones and the Toowong Cemetery!

It would be difficult to designate any sections of old municipal cemeteries as "historical" because the question would arise, which graves are historical and which are not!  In Toowoomba our cemetery is divided into denominational sections, so there are "historical" (whatever that means!) graves in all sections. 

dee - the mind boggles - reclaiming family gravestones to pass them on to one's descendants!   

MarieC

[PrueM]

we need to send Prue over to explain about preservation!  I wish they had followed that story back to Scotland.

LOL Trish 
I was yelling at the TV:  "give it to me give it to me give it to me!!!!!!!!!!!!".  Dear oh dear...and them with Artlab just up the road in Adelaide, where they could get it fixed for not much money.   

The grave info was pretty depressing, particularly for PAID plots (i.e. not common graves)...I have heard of alot of places having 99 year 'leases' but 25 years is not very long.  Why don't they just stick another cemetery another 20 k outside town?  It's not like there's not enough space for one!!  I was really sad when I found out that my gggrandmother's grave in Leytonstone (London) had been 'reclaimed' - apparently the common/pauper's section (where she was buried) had another several feet of earth dumped over the top, and new (presumably paid-for) graves were then dug into this.  So poor Caroline is being squashed by her well-to-do neighbours upstairs    I suppose at least they didn't dig her up and dump her somewhere else...

Prue

[nudge67]

I also found the shipwreck part interesting, as I am descended from survivors of the wreck of the Marion in 1851 off the "heel" of Yorke Peninsula, one day's sailing out of Adelaide. Once again, drunken captain & crew were held responsible.

Harzardous waters in South Australia.

[deeiluka]

And the reef is now known as the Marion Reef, Nudge! The heel of Yorke Peninsula  was a real stretch of shipwreck coast in those early days..... 

Prue,   I groaned out loud when I saw those old documents. My son is executive director of an Australian Conservation company, and his wife is an archeologist...... I bet they was groaning too. It was so sad to see the way things were stored!        

.....dee