Friends of Coburg Cemetery Inc. in Preston, Victoria, Australia | Community organisation

Friends of Coburg Cemetery Inc.

Locality: Preston, Victoria, Australia

Address: 770 Bell Street 3072 Preston, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.friendsofcoburgcemetery.com

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25.01.2022 Coburg Mayor Williams' house lost to the developer's wrecking ball

23.01.2022 John Center, Scotsman, bagpipe maker of international renown, photographer, Brunswick businessman, buried at Coburg Cemetery. https://www.thebagpipemuseum.com/Center_John.html

20.01.2022 Is this your ancestor? GMCT is seeking families of people on this list before reinstating gravestones at Coburg Cemetery. Contact GMCT for more info. https://www.gmct.com.au/coburg-headstones

14.01.2022 Ever wondered about the Hardings from Harding Street? Read Dr. Cheryl Griffin's blog post about these early pioneers, buried at Coburg Cemetery. http://morelandpast.blogspot.com//the-faces-behind-naming-

14.01.2022 It's here!! The new FOCC website! https://friendsofcoburgcemetery.com After several years of stops and starts, today we published a new-look website that tells the world about this group, our activities, the cemetery, the people, and includes online forms for members, grave searches and queries. There is also an archive of past newsletters, 30 grave-side signs, maps, photos and a bit of cemetery history.

10.01.2022 Special thanks to Peter Burns for these magnificent photos of Williamstown Cemetery angels

09.01.2022 Out with the old and crumbling and in with the fresh and new (trees, that is)

08.01.2022 Spring is springing already at Coburg Cemetery (and some people like to let their dogs run off-leash, digging and leaving their mark everywhere ). Still, it's a great place for locals to stretch our legs during our limited "Stage 4 lockdown" exercise-away-from-home allowance!

08.01.2022 The pines of Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery come down with a creak and a crash!

07.01.2022 Have you been to Coburg Cemetery? Please take a couple of minutes to fill in a survey for a Melb Uni research team: https://forms.gle/22Z3gKZFHKU4YgR99

06.01.2022 It's Dying To Know Day! August 8th is an "annual day of action dedicated to activating conversations and community actions around death, dying and bereavement". Maybe today is a good day to rewrite your Will or maybe just tell someone what songs you'd like at your funeral!

06.01.2022 The Hardy Tree. Inside the ancient churchyard of St Pancras, behind the small church, is this. The story goes that during the 1860's, when the Midland Railway l...ine was built over the original St Pancras Churchyard, an Architect named Blomfield was commisioned to exhume the human remains and dismantle the tombs. Being a rather unpleasant task, he passed the job onto his young protégé, Thomas Hardy (who in the following years would go on to become the renound novelist). Hardy is credited as having had the idea to place the remaining headstones in a pattern around an ash tree at the back of the churchyard. In the years since the trunk has absorbed many of the headstones, welding life and death in a bizarre but beautfiful way. See more

05.01.2022 Discover the darker side of one of Victoria’s most historic prisons with Ghost host Charlotte as she tells stories of the unexplained that she has encountered during her tours. Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/272176820685511/

04.01.2022 Updated website! Signage about dogs on leads at Coburg Cemetery have been erected so we figured we'd better change the front page of our website (it had a gorgeous picture of a big dog... off-leash!) Check it out and while you are there catch up on some of the stories we've added to the biographies page: www.friendsofcoburgcemetery.com

03.01.2022 Looking for something to do during lockdown in Preston/Coburg area? Download the Self Guided Heritage Tour map from our website and walk the cemetery to discover some fascinating local people and their stories. https://friendsofcoburgcemetery.com/the-cemetery

02.01.2022 With our focus on health workers these days, here's a nurse worth commemorating. ISABEL MARSH (1875-1944) was appointed Sister-in-Charge of the Consumption Ward at Austin Hospital within a year of graduating (1902) then quickly became Matron, introduced a range of health care reforms, changed how nurses work and raised nursing standards. She was in this role during the Spanish flu pandemic and the Isabel Grant Marsh medal is still awarded in recognition of outstanding nursing services. She died in 1944 and is buried at Coburg Cemetery.

01.01.2022 The latest FOCC newsletter "Buried Treasures" is out! Members should have received their emailed copy by now. If anyone else wants a copy (but for some strange reason doesn't want to become a FOCCer), email us a request and we can shoot one through to you! [email protected]