Thursday, February 15, 2007
Duck on Plaque; Wellington CBD
The Bolton Memorial Park leads to the City's botanical gardens.
A rose garden (obviously),
The possum is a pest.
About 15 minutes walk from parliament.
A rose garden (obviously),
The possum is a pest.
About 15 minutes walk from parliament.
Bolton Street Memorial Park /Cemetry
Just off the Terrace (the back of which you can see in the first photo). The only European cemetry in Wellington between 1840-90 ish, consequently the resting place of some famous early European New Zealanders (Wakefield and Seddon, to name two). Had a bloody great motorway run through it in the 1960s, which meant exhuming and reburying 3600 bodies in a mass grave.
This grave records the deaths, separated by a few days each time, of six children from the same family - all victims of Scarlett fever in May 1865.
In the Jewish section...
This grave records the deaths, separated by a few days each time, of six children from the same family - all victims of Scarlett fever in May 1865.
In the Jewish section...
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