Friends of Toowong Cemetery

#31daysofgraves Day 27: Portrait. Mr Citrano looks out over Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland

#31DaysOfGraves #Portrait Rev. George Henry Storie, vicar of St Giles Camberwell, London, 1811-1823. He was allegedly buried in the church's crypt which was later cleared of all interments, became the home of the Samaritans in 1962, and now hosts a jazz club. No idea where George is now!!

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 27: Portrait Frank Thorne was born at Gawler, South Australia in 1883. His first boxing contest at Kalgoorlie in 1898 was a bare knuckle, fight-to-a-finish affair with Alf. M'Coy. Frank won in 32 rounds. Learn more: www.fotc.au/research/fra...

#31daysofgraves Day26: Accident Thomas Pears lost on the S.S. Titanic. Isleworth cemetery, west London.

#31daysofgraves Day 26: Accident. This might be a plain stone in a country graveyard, but there’s definitely some kind of accident here. Possibly involving a time machine.

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is accident. This gravestone is in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, #Hanbury, #Worcestershire. It is for Henry #Parry who died in 1847 as a result of an accident with a horse-drawn #railway waggon. He was working in the local #salt industry.

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 26: Accident May 1962 was a dangerous month in Brisbane… Two Accidental deaths side by side in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘 fotc.au

Bohemian National #Cemetery #Chicago. #31daysofgraves #Tree #cemeterySunday #photography #memorial #eck #anzmem #monument #funeraryart #fotografia #cementerio

#31DaysofGraves Day 25 Tree Bayliss family Highgate East Cemetery

Are you enjoying our #31DaysOfGraves posts? If so, come along to our free guided tour on Sunday 1 November, 10:30am – 12:00. Every tour is different. This month's topic is ‘Disasters and Tragedies’. Meet under the flagpole in Canon Garland Place, Toowong Cemetery. www.fotc.au/visit/guided...

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 25: Tree A hollow terracotta headstone in the form of a tree stump with two scrolls "nailed" to it. The scrolls commemorate Elizabeth Halliday and Annie Birkbeck. Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 9, Section 16, Grave 8.

#31DaysOfGraves — Day 24 - Contrast Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is "contrast." These graves are in New Castle, #Delaware, #USA, squeezed in behind the Presbyterian church. The light streams down the gap only for a short while each day. For those that care this photo was taken using a #Yashicamat 124G and #Ilford #Delta 100 film.

#31DaysofGraves Day 23: Wings

#31DaysofGraves. Wings. St Michael and All Angels Howick, Northumberland.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 23 Wings The memorial tomb of French aviator and World War I and II fighter pilot Maurice Arnoux (1895–1940) Montrouge cemetery

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 23: Wings

#31DaysOfGraves #Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a Native American woman, a novelist and collector of traditional stories. Her grave is in Okanogan, Washington state.

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 22: Mourning Eversley Hull standing beside the headstone of Joseph Postlethwaite, Toowong Cemetery, 1902. 📍 Toowong Cemetery fotc.au

#31DaysOfGraves Day21: Air The beautiful young face of my Great Uncle, Serjeant Thomas Hindle, Air Mach 3, of the newly formed Royal Air Force. He succumbed to the Spanish flu of 1918, 10 days before Armistice, in the RAF field hospital, Oxfordshire, he was 24. Buried in #Nelson Cemetery, Lancs

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is "air". This tombstone is in the graveyard of St Pauls Walden, #Hertfordshire, #UK. Rodney was only 25 when he died, I assume in an accident as it was before WW2. I'm not sure what ACAC stands for.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A fireman's funeral with horse-drawn hearse laden with floral tributes including a ladder and the words "The Last Alarm." Personal collection

#31daysofgraves No 20 fire epigraph in memory of a blacksmith's life. My sledge and hammer both declined, My bellows they have lost the wind, My fire extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coals have spent, my iron gone, Luke Ralph, Blacksmith who died aged 49 Settle

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 20: Fire William Sowray was born in Staveley, Derbyshire, England on 22 February 1851. He was a member of the Ithaca Volunteer Fire Brigade for 23 years and was a superintendent at that organisation. 📍 Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 🦘 fotc.au

#31DaysofGraves Day 19 Water

#31DaysofGraves Day 19: Water from the churchyard of St Andrew, Chale, Isle of Wight.

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 19: Water Michael Brennan - Artesian Wellborer. Michael died in 1921, aged 61, and is buried in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Portion 7A, Section 7, Grave 12. Thanks for the tip @headstonehunter.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves Day 18: Earth John Foster gravestone (1681) by the Old Stone Cutter of Boston, originally erected in Dorchester. A gravestone that will make you ask questions such as, Why do geese hold up the globe? Has the carver ever seen a pelvis? When did he realize he forgot the scythe?

#31DaysofGraves Day 18: Earth The grave of John Cleves Symmes, Jr., at Third Street & Sycamore, Hamilton, Ohio. He declared "the earth is hollow, and habitable within." A replica of the hollow earth tops his gravestone. www.ohiotraveler.com/hollow-earth... www.findagrave.com/memorial/181...

🪦 #31DaysOfGraves — Day 18: Earth Not everyone 'rested in peace' at Toowong Cemetery. Chinese graves were relocated from Portion 8 ➔ 2 ➔ 7 ➔ 19. Most early Chinese graves were exhumed, remains placed in urns, and repatriated to China. It is rumoured gold was placed in the urns and snuck home.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 17: Music Stocky cherubs hold their trumpets aloft to celebrate the Day of Resurrection on this gravestone in the churchyard of St Leonard’s Church, Watlington, #Oxfordshire