Friends of South Brisbane Cemetery

The Plaque: The historical marker on the graves of executed prisoners in... youtu.be/7IkwsN1hYGo via @YouTube

Happy Wattle Day! Here's one of the wattle symbols in our cemetery. #WattleDay #cemetery

Celtic knot on a South Brisbane Cemetery headstone :) #cemetery #taphophile #brisbane #celtic

The first storms of the season are forecast for later this week, and it's always a concern for us in the Friends group here. Will there be flash flooding, will branches or whole trees come down and damage graves, it's always a worry. Fingers crossed all goes well.

Big cleaning bee at the #SouthBrisbaneCemetery last weekend when we supervised LDS youth washing and tidying graves. A crowd of 200 made for an unforgettable day. #FriendsofSouthBrisbaneCemetery

Tracey and Chris from the FOSBC are this year's State Library of Queensland 'John Oxley Library Award' recipients. This award is in recognition of the massive amount of work they have put into cemetery history over the years. slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/f…

Great turn out at the @FriendsBrisbane 150 (+1) anniversary memorial unveiling at the South Brisbane Cemetery. Wonderful #community event with hundreds attending.

Here is our April 'Cemetery Guardian' newsletter, with info on Kauri Pines, our new Discovery Trails, the scallop symbol, cemetery residents, historical funerals, our database project, anniversary day, upcoming events, and more. drive.google.com/file/d/1oPTJzb…

@CemeteryClub Danse Macabre

We still have tickets available for tonight's talk.. but be quick! It starts at 7pm. highgatecemetery.org/events

Congratulations to Chris and Tracey from the FOSBC for getting a Griffith Australia Day Award for all their hard work in the cemetery over the years. terributlermp.com/news/the-griff…

GOTHIC GARDENING Many Victorian graves were designed to be planted with symbolic flowers and would have been gardened and cared for by loved ones in the Victorian era. These were called 'cradle graves'; a few are being recreated in the present #GothicSpring #BotanicalGothic

The great names you stumble across during South Brisbane Cemetery research. Just found out that the middle V here stands for Vanilla. Violet Vanilla is a very awesome name to give to a baby. 💜

What did Highgate Cemetery look like in the nineteenth century? Here's your chance to find out...

Author C.S. Lewis, on grieving over the death of his wife, American poet Joy Davidman, who passed away at just 45 of cancer in 1960: "Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

This kookaburra found an Australian flag next to a war grave in South Brisbane Cemetery. Aussie as.

@FOBCOfficial Yes we do get a lot of visitors over Christmas, and often find decorations on graves afterwards.

Visitors paying respects to relatives in Brompton Cemetery today. Is this a Christmas tradition for many?

The more I think about this, the more excited I am at the prospect. These fantastic pinnacles were such a feature in early illustrations of Highgate Cemetery. Their Regency exuberance makes this the 'Brighton Pavilion of cemetery chapels'!

Some of the very, very splendid people who have been a part of the 'Guardian Angels' monthly cleaning bees through this very disrupted year. We got hundreds of old graves cleaned and tidied, and the South Brisbane Cemetery looks that much better for their efforts.