Residents for Waverley Cemetery

Residents for Waverley Cemetery We are a group of people who love Waverley Cemetery and are concerned about its future We encourage you to join and to contribute news, comments and photos

Residents for Waverley Cemetery is a group of Waverley and Randwick residents established to ensure that one of the top 10 Cemeteries in the world continues as an iconic Sydney site. RWC are committed to:

- Preserving the heritage and environment of Waverley Cemetery, for instance, the return of the original design of the boundary fence
- Promoting Waverley Cemetery as an historic and iconic site


- Ensuring the community and general public has easy access to the Cemetery as a place for contemplation, and the appreciation of local and national history
- Maintaining the valuable historic graves and monuments and the site in general
- Ensuring that any future work in the Cemetery is appropriate and in-line with community expectations
- Ensuring the families of the 80,000 people interred in the Cemetery, are confident that their loved ones continue to receive the respect they deserve.

Our favourite cemetery
05/06/2022

Our favourite cemetery

This is a bit off-topic for the cemetery but this is another important nearby heritage site that needs your help. Please...
17/12/2021

This is a bit off-topic for the cemetery but this is another important nearby heritage site that needs your help. Please have a look at this and sign the petition >>

https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/save-waverley-war-memorial-hospital?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1637449263&utm_campaign&utm_source=facebook&share=66373a4e-dc61-4ecf-9702-cc53e7136b39&fbclid=IwAR0ZPDoT29-R0dQjK7i0iXiS4uDszl9GMy3-QJO9wZ6w93cD2JktlaGLR4s

Waverley is in danger of losing one of its iconic heritage estates. It was gifted to the Methodist Church in 1919 to support WWI veterans. The gardens and associated buildings of the War Memorial Hospital are a community asset, which has been enjoyed for over a century. Uniting has prepared a concep...

An interesting article >>
01/03/2021

An interesting article >>

Cemeteries are regarded as places that welcome different identities, representing a certain culture. They are places of memory, rooted in experiences.

All yellow again.Some recent photos from the cemetery.
13/12/2020

All yellow again.
Some recent photos from the cemetery.

Social distancing. Well, this is a novel way to keep your distance from others! Whenever you go for a walk in Waverley C...
07/04/2020

Social distancing. Well, this is a novel way to keep your distance from others! Whenever you go for a walk in Waverley Cemetery you are sure to see something interesting:)

“Another little lamb is gone”Poor little Georgina O’Connor died in 1895 just five months old. This cemetery is very beau...
15/03/2020

“Another little lamb is gone”

Poor little Georgina O’Connor died in 1895 just five months old. This cemetery is very beautiful but also so sad.

Here’s an interesting podcast we heard recently about the sustainability of burials and other alternatives (you need to ...
02/08/2019

Here’s an interesting podcast we heard recently about the sustainability of burials and other alternatives (you need to click on “download audio”). >>

Once you've died, how should you dispose of your body to have the least impact on the environment?

We came across this excellent podcast today which outlines the history of Australian cemeteries. Around the 30 minute ma...
14/07/2019

We came across this excellent podcast today which outlines the history of Australian cemeteries. Around the 30 minute mark the issue of heritage listing is discussed. Of course we are all hoping that Waverley Cemetery will soon have a national heritage listing.

‎Show Big Ideas - ABC RN, Ep Cemeteries as places of memorial and leisure - 21 Nov 2018

Waverley Council is trialing a footpath in the Bronte Cutting - close to the Cemetery. Some of us in the group are not k...
16/11/2018

Waverley Council is trialing a footpath in the Bronte Cutting - close to the Cemetery. Some of us in the group are not keen on this idea - the council seems to have forgotten that like the Cemetery the Cutting is also a heritage Item. Anyway, you can have a look and have your say here >>

Over one million people use the Coastal Walk from Bronte to Bondi every year. There is a portion of this walk at Calga Place, commonly known as Bronte Cutting, without a footpath. The missing link in the footpath means that during peak times, as many as 500 pedestrians per hour are forced to walk al...

Some pictures of the cemetery from yesterday morning
03/11/2018

Some pictures of the cemetery from yesterday morning

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