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Fremantle Cemetery Heritage Tour 2014
The Fremantle Heritage Festival sometimes includes a tour of the Cemetery conducted by Don Whittington, a member of the MCB. In 2014 for the first time the tour included brief performances by actors representing interees. Here are some photos.
Don at the grave of Tom Edwards, 'working class martyr', during the 2014 Heritage Festival Cemetery Tour
Don watching an actor speaking as Moondyne Joe on his gravestone during the 2014 Heritage Festival Cemetery Tour
Don Whittington with an actress playing Martha Rendell during the 2014 Heritage Festival Cemetery Tour. I'm sorry I didn't get the names of either of the actors. If anyone could let me know, I'd be grateful. The actor in the 2016 Tour was James Hagan.
References and Links
MCB History Walk[1] of Fremantle Cemetery, and map
Heritage Trail
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 15 February, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/cemeteries/heritagetour.html (it was last updated on 6 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.
6 December, 2023