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Commercial Ghost Tours, New Age Shops and Readers in your area => New South Wales => Topic started by: Lebay8 on February 18, 2009, 03:43:57 PM
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Monthly Tours leave from Necropolis Circuit at 10am and run for 2.5 hours
2 tours are run on each tour day - the heritage walks and a themed tour.
Sunday 1st March 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 1 or Murder & Mayhem
Sunday 5th April 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 2 or 19th Century Sydney
Sunday 3rd May 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 1 or Plague & Pestilence
Sunday 7th June 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 2 or Ships & Shipwrecks
Sunday 5th July 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 1 or Our Convict Heritage
Sunday 2nd August 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 2 or The Railway Walk
Sunday 6th September 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 1 or The Irish Tour
Sunday 4th October 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 2 or Flowers, Gardens & Symbolism
Sunday 1st November 2009 - Heritage Walk Part 1 or Funerary Symbolism & 19th Century Landscapes
We look forward to seeing you there.
Drinks are available for purchase and after the monthly tours there is a sausage sizzle available for lunch. There are also Rookwood souvenirs available, as well as the very yummy Rookwood Honey.
Don't forget to Slip, Slop, Slap and be sure to wear sturdy comfortable shoes.
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I can't wait to get to Sydney to do this tour.
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Rookwood is a fantastic old cemetery. What a great assortment of tours. Thanks for the info Lebay.
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I cant wait to do them all!
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Don't forget to post all about it if you do them. Should be really cool.
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Last Sunday Mr 15 and I did the last Twilight tour of Rookwood for the year. The twilight tours are run during the summer months to beat the heat. The tour was quite small, just Mr 15 and I and 2 guides. It covered some headstone symbolism, some history and quite a lot of talk about conservation of the cemetry.
We saw the grave of the bushranger Capt Moonlite, Louisa Lawson (mother of Henry), the 1st train driver in NSW, and several others of interest. We heard the tale of the murder of the Catholic caretaker. We saw the vaults of the Toohey (I feel like a Toohey's) family. We saw the bee hives that are kept in Rookwood to help propergate the plant life (the scent of the honey was delish!)
I was disappointed that I didn't learn a little more, but for someone that knows nothing about Rookwood this is a great beginners tour. It covers a very small section of the cemetery but there are not enough hours in the day to do a walking tour of Rookwood all at once.
I am looking forward to doing a few more of these tours :) We took lots of photos and they are loaded onto my facebook, if anyone wants to see just email for my name and I will add you.
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Cool, thanks for the write up.
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Thanks for the update Lebay
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Am looking forward to taking this tour however am recovering from a knee reconstruction and so it looks like all ghost tour plans have to be placed on hold until next year!
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I'd LOVE to do this! Have emailed you Lebay