Graveyard is around the church of St Andrew’s. Photos are shown roughly in a clockwise order, starting on the southern side (left of photo), then at the back, then the other side. Some are out of order.
Photos & transcriptions are available on the The Gardens’ site and Northern Midland Council database (in progress).
The headstones are located amongst a band of trees on one side of Pioneer Park in the middle of the town (see on Google Maps), with the church on the other side of the park, off to the left in this photo. There are good individual photos and transcriptions of the headstones available on other websites (see links page) so I’m not going to duplicate them here. This is more about looking at them in context. (Although if you can’t find a particular stone within its context in the photos, comment and I’ll see if I can find it, although the new headstones & rose garden I don’t have photos of.)
(Note: many of these graves have smashed headstones & fences, with can be distressing for some people, Also the puddles after the rain exaggerate the vandalised effect.)
The green, wet photos are from September 2009.
The dry, yellow photos are from 2005. Starting in the foreground, then over to the back left.
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