Waverley Cemetery
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The Waverley Cemetery opened in 1877 and is a major cemetery at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Waverley Cemetery is a self funding fully operational cemetery. Offering earth burial and cremation options.
It is noted for its largely intact Victorian and Edwardian landscape nature and its huge number of white Italian marble monuments. Waverley Cemetery conducts funerals everyday except Sundays.
Interment options include earth burial and cremation memorials, Mausolea are also popular. It is in a spectacular scenic location on the top of the ocean cliffs. The cemetery is a self funded business and relies on continued burial and cremation interments. To date over 86,000 interments, both coffin burial and cremation have taken place in the 50,000 allotments.
Although not a tourist attraction as such Waverley Cemetery has quite a few celebrities, actors, writers, artists, and political leaders buried there and is often used as a dramatic location for filming work.
Special guided tours are offered during the year by the cemetery management and the volunteer Friends group. The Friends raise money for specific restoration works to some monuments.
The Cemetery business has been in operation since 1877 and was devised along similar lines to Père Lachaise in Paris and General Cemetery Companys' Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Mr Martin Forrester-Reid is the current and 6th Cemetery Manager.
Use in TV & film
The earliest known motion picture filmed at the cemetery was the 1976/7 Itallian/Australian production The Pajama Case Girl, an odd forensic tinged tale of love and betrayal based on a true story, also the early Mel Gibson film Tim was shot there. Baywatch used the cemetery while filming its Australian movie length espisode, and Home and Away buried one of their loved characters at Waverley in 2004. Notable recent films include Dirty Deeds.External links
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