Friends of St Kilda Cemetery

The Friends of St Kilda Cemetery are a not-for-profit community group working actively with Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, the administrators of St Kilda Cemetery.

CORONERS, CONSTABULARY AND CRIME TOUR

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CORONERS, CONSTABULARY AND CRIME TOUR
2.00PM SUNDAY 28 JULY 2019

Come and join the Friends of St Kilda Cemetery on this terrific walk around the cemetery for an insight into the work of police officers, coroners, unusual deaths and murders.
THIS IS NOT A TOUR FOR THE SQUEAMISH!

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COST: $15 INCLUDING AFTERNOON TEA
BOOKINGS EMAIL: info@foskc.org; telephone 0422379053
Meet at the main gates, Dandenong Road. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear.

FUTURE TOURS
Colonial Merchants of Melbourne, 2.00pm Sunday 25 August 2019
Cost $15 including afternoon tea; Bookings as above.

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Did you know - the remains of three victims from the fever ship “Glen Huntly” were removed from Point Ormond and reburied in St Kilda Cemetery in 1898.

Did you know - that Major General Sir John Hoad, the Australian Army’s second Chief of the General Staff, started his working career as a teacher. His last teaching position was at Brighton Road State School no.1479, St Kilda.

Did you know - that on 27 August 1890 in the St Kilda Cemetery a memorial was unveiled to honour the early pioneers who had come out in the ship ‘Glen Huntly’.

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  • St Kilda Cemetery
    Dandenong Road St Kilda East

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Daylight Savings 8.00am - 8.00pm
Normal Hours 8.00am - 6.00pm

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