Spirited Cemetery Tours – Sydenham Cemetery
A series of cemetery tours revealing not only the great and good but also the interesting, scandalous and downright evil.
Join local historian Richard Greenaway on a tour of Sydenham Cemetery and discover the historic graves of Christchurch's past citizens including a Christchurch mayor, a conscientious objector and Labour Party pioneer, an illiterate chimney sweep and astronomer, and John Cracroft Wilson's Indian workers.
Richard Greenaway (M.A. (Honours in History), University of Canterbury, 1972) has taken cemetery tours during Heritage Week/Festival since 1994.
From 1980 to 2015 he was Reference Librarian, Aotearoa New Zealand Centre, Christchurch City Libraries, and is the author of two books for Christchurch City Libraries:
- Unsung heroines – published for Women's Suffrage Year, 1993.
- Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief – for the millennium and 150th anniversary of the Canterbury province, in 2000.
Greenaway received the A.C. Rhodes Medal from the Canterbury History Foundation in 2008.
Cemetery tour booklets are available for $5 on the day.
Meet at parking area.
Join local historian Richard Greenaway on a tour of Sydenham Cemetery and discover the historic graves of Christchurch's past citizens including a Christchurch mayor, a conscientious objector and Labour Party pioneer, an illiterate chimney sweep and astronomer, and John Cracroft Wilson's Indian workers.
Richard Greenaway (M.A. (Honours in History), University of Canterbury, 1972) has taken cemetery tours during Heritage Week/Festival since 1994.
From 1980 to 2015 he was Reference Librarian, Aotearoa New Zealand Centre, Christchurch City Libraries, and is the author of two books for Christchurch City Libraries:
- Unsung heroines – published for Women's Suffrage Year, 1993.
- Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief – for the millennium and 150th anniversary of the Canterbury province, in 2000.
Greenaway received the A.C. Rhodes Medal from the Canterbury History Foundation in 2008.
Cemetery tour booklets are available for $5 on the day.
Meet at parking area.
Sydenham Cemetery, 1 Simeon Street, Somerfield
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