Queenborough Cemetery

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Removed Cemetery. From Wikipedia: "Queenborough Oval was originally part of the Queenborough Regional Cemetery, a 12-acre (49,000 m2) site opened in 1873 and owned by Sandy Bay businessmen George Luckman and Stephen Large who purchased the site for ₤280 as a means of good business enterprise so that the residents in the Queenborough area could bury their dead some distance from their homes. The cemetery originally occupied the site from the edge of Sandy Bay Road (across from where Wrest Point Casino stands today), extending the whole way up the hills of Nelson Road to the edge Churchill Avenue (where The Hutchins School exists today). By 1913 the Queenborough Cemetery Company had run out of money to maintain the cemetery and the entire site lay derelict until the Hobart City Council purchased the site in late-1915 through an Act of Parliament and began building sports grounds in 1916 in the lower portion off Sandy Bay Road (now known as Lower Queenborough) and the current Queenborough Oval above that on the corner of Peel Street, with the remainder of the cemetery being used until it was closed in 1934 and was later dismantled in 1961 for the construction of The Hutchins School site.[1] Across the road from the Peel Street end of Queenborough Oval, the headstones of many of the dead still remain in a small, well maintained remembrance garden." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenborough_Oval) Note from one of the BillionGraves helper photographers: It is a bit of a weird cemetery, as there's a 8-inch or so fence made out of stone bricks and some parts of headstones (with information on the dead) have been used as those bricks! I don't know whether those headstones were damaged and snapped at those points and then put like that as a smart way to show them, or if parts of the headstone that have info are under the ground there / they were snapped to fit! If this makes sense. It would have been a very bad foresight to use gravestones to make a fence! Address: off Peel Street Sandy Bay Tas 7005
Latitude: -42.904934
Longitude: 147.331031
GPS: 42 54.29604, 147 19.86145
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