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.

MUSICIANS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS TOUR

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MUSICIANS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS TOUR
2.00PM SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2019
Come and hear about photographers and musicians buried in the cemetery on this interesting walk around the tombstones.

COST: $15 including afternoon tea.
BOOKINGS REQUIRED: Ring 0422379053 or email info@foskc.org

Meet at main gates Dandenong Road.
We go all weathers, rain, hail or shine so please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring an umbrella

WON’T YOU COME AND JOIN US

nicholas caire

Photo: Nicholas Caire, Photographer, buried at St Kilda Cemetery

FUTURE TOURS:
Coroners, Constabulary and Crime, 2.00pm Sunday 28 July, 2019
Colonial Merchants of Melbourne, 2.00pm Sunday 25 August, 2019
COST: $15 including afternoon tea.
BOOKINGS REQUIRED: Ring 0422379053 or email info@foskc.org
All tours leave from main gates Dandenong Road.

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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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    Dandenong Road St Kilda East

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