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Tours
The Brighton Cemetorians Inc.
aim to run regular walking tours of the Brighton General Cemetery on a range of themes to cater for all interests.
Our tours run for approximately 90 mins which includes refreshments and a tour pamphlet.
We are also willing to undertake tours for private groups.
Cost of Tours: Non-members: $10, Members: $8.
Departure Time: Tours Depart at 2pm.
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Forthcoming Tours - Diary Dates
- OCT 2011
31st
- Halloween Walk - 6.45pm for a 7pm start – this walk will begin outside the office.
Cost is $25.00 per family [2 adults and 2 children]. Additional persons $5.00 each. Persons without children $10 each.
Don’t forget to bring a torch.
Kids dress up as ghosts, goblins, super heroes, fairies, pirates or what ever you would like to be.
Fun for the whole family. The walk is family orientated and is designed to promote the history that exists at the Brighton General Cemetery.
Duration of walk is approximately 60 minutes.
- NOV 2011
13th - Jockey and Trainers Walk. 2pm.
- DEC 2011
4th (on Sunday) - Christmas Lunch. 12 midday. To be held in the Trust Room. Cost per person $15.00. Bookings essential. Contact Lois (03) 9558 4248
- MAR 2012
18th (on Sunday) - 2pm – Ned Kelly Associations. There are many people interred at the Brighton General Cemetery whose lives were interwoven with Ned Kelly. On this walk, we will visit their graves to tell their stories including the Sherriff of Victoria who signed Ned’s Death Warrant. As Ned is still making news about where his remains are to be placed, this will be an interesting walk about little known facts relating to his life.
- APR 2012
21st (on Saturday) - 2pm – ANZAC Day Walk. On this Walk, we visit the Graves of young Australians who took part in the bloody battles in Egypt, Gallipoli and France in the 1914-1918 War. They fought for King and Country. Today, we honour them by telling their stories of lives cut short, and those who died due to the injuries they received. LEST WE FORGET.
- MAY 2012
20th (on Sunday) - 2pm – Law Week – “Elements Of the Law”. This Walk features different elements of the Law including George Higginbotham, Barristers and the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, who were part of the legal System. Also people, who through the way they died, were involved in the legal System by way of Autopsy. This walk produces mixed emotions, pride in the men who helped shape our legal system, and sadness for the people who died prematurely through murder and accidents.
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