Amazing "finds" in the Old Anglican Section
As a member of the Helping Hands gardening group, part of the volunteer group that is the Friends of Rookwood, I often get my hands dirty. Our small group meet regularly and work on various areas of the original part of the Cemetery pulling out weeds, tending to some rose garden areas, clearing areas of dead agapanthus and tidying up (or what I call "resurrecting") some graves from a jungle of overgrowth. In real estate it's all about location and I'm afraid it's the same in death as well. The areas that are closest to the No. 1 Mortuary Station where the Funeral Train ended its journey in the grounds of the Necropolis is where you will find the grandest monuments and vaults. That relates to all the denominations designated at the time of the design of the Cemetery, Anglican, Catholic, Jewish, Independent, Presbyterian and Wesleyan. No.1 Mortuary Station located in the Cemetery - Wikipedia At the moment we are concentrating on liberating some of the monuments in...