Law Week Walk – “GUILTY OR NOT” You be the Jury

Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia

As the Jury you will hear the case of the death of two wives of a doctor, be asked who caused the death of the body found in a lane, whether a brothers dispute was responsible for a murder and while out shooting rabbits was a death an accident. In total six cases will be
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$15.00

Anzac Day Walk at the Brighton Cemetery

Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia

Our Annual Anzac Walk relates to stories of a few of the many service persons interred at the Brighton General Cemetery. On this walk we get to know just a few of those lying within the walls at the Brighton Cemetery. Edward William Pinder was awarded the Distinguished Combat Medal for his bravery for taking
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$15.00

The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd by Colin Smith

Camden Hotel 414 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South, VIC, Australia

Colin Smith will be the guest speaker at the Brighton Cemetorian's 2022 AGM. He will speak on The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd   Theodore Penleigh Boyd (15 August 1890 – 27 November 1923) was a British born Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940) and Emma Minnie
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ANZAC walk in Brighton Cemetery

Brighton Cemetery Hawthorn Road, Brighton, VIC, Australia

On this walk we will visit 8 service persons who have been honoured with a flag. James Ernest Newland who was awarded a Victoria Cross 'For most conspicuous bravery, and devotion to duty, in the face of heavy odds, on three separate occasions’; Gladys Cain a nurse at Caulfield Military Hospital who died during the Spanish Flu Epidemic; and George Hawke Northcote whose wife persevered to be allowed to go to England to care for her husband George who was badly injured.  Today we pay homage.

Death by Misadventure – a guided walk through Brighton Cemetery

Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia

Inquests and newspaper articles tell the stories of train fatalities. Crossing the train tracks at Carrum, Frank Pynn was carefully watching the up train when he and his cordial wagon were was hit by the down train.  Unlucky Oswald Ritchie who fell from an electric train near Brighton Beach station as he was trying to retrieve  his hat which had blown off,  and fell through the open door of a carriage.

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Open House weekend: guided historical tours of Brighton Cemetery

Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia

The Brighton Cemetery is over 160 years old and full of notable people that made Melbourne memorable: Sir John Monash; Carlo Catani - Civil Engineer; Charles Ogg, Architect; George Frederick Ballantyne, Architect; and William Guilfoyle, Landscape Gardener and Botanist are but a few of the many people who lie resting within the walls of the cemetery.