Beyond Songlines: grave

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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Jack (John) Tallis...

Jack (John) Morton Tallis was Composer-of-Honour at Monash University Department of Music...

He was the last owner of iconic Beleura House at Mornington...

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Charles...

Charles Heber Perrin (1867-1959 - grave at Tyabb Cemetery, Hastings...

As an engineer for the Victorian Railways,

Charles Perrin worked on the construction of Flinders Street Station,

several Murray River bridges,

the Walhalla narrow gauge railway,

the Bairnsdale-Orbost and Gheringhap-Maroona Railways,

South Kensington-West Footscray goods line

and the Maribyrnong River Viaduct on the Albion-Broadmeadows line.

More details HERE

Sunday, 28 August 2016

Erja...

unusual style grave - with no informative captions - at Flinders...

just the suggestion that the name is Finnish and perhaps a female...

Further, on the Billion Graves website, the surname has been recorded as Linden...

Saturday, 16 July 2016

memorial grave at Sorrento cemetery for Captain John Scott and seamen...
They were sailing from Liverpool to Melbourne in the cargo ship Sierra Nevada
which was wrecked on London Bridge rocks, Portsea Back Beach...9th May 1900...
The ship drifted ashore while waiting for a pilot.
The anchors were let go, but these did not hold.
The vessel broke up within half an hour in the rough sea, drowning 23 of the 28 crew.
Sierra Nevada is one of five iron-hulled trading vessels
wrecked in and around Port Phillip between 1883 and 1900.

Sunday, 22 May 2016

unknown music?...

grave at Cranbourne Cemetery...
Paddy was a life member at Springvale Little Athletics Centre...
The speaker designed headstone gives no clue as to the musical? connection...

Sunday, 15 May 2016

community hero...

a beautifully designed grave at Cranbourne Cemetery...
Robert was a well-known identity in the Devon Meadows community.
He was involved in the local football, netball and cricket clubs...
Robert Flanigan's death in September 2007 was the result of a car accident,
was just a month after his father's death...
His father was Edward John Flanigan, and he too was a member of the football club...
Both men have been remembered with a plaque at the Devon Meadows Recreation Reserve
and a pavilion at Glover Reserve has been named in their honour...

Sunday, 13 December 2015

Sir John Holland...

grave at Flinders Cemetery...
Sir John Holland, an engineer, was born and raised on his family's farm on the Mornington Peninsula...
He married Suzanne Wharton in 2003...

Sunday, 6 December 2015

don't forget the hat...

grave at Flinders cemetery...

Sunday, 29 November 2015

Selwyn Pritchard Hughes...

Selwyn Pritchar's grave at Flinders cemetery...
His extraordinary biography is HERE
More details of this man and his grave are in my Greyscale Territory post HERE...