Canon EOD 40D, 1/20sec, f/3.2 85mm ISO 100, Bias -1/3ev
Shot this during my walk yesterday.
Information about St Thomas Rest Park
The former St. Thomas’ Cemetery was the first burial ground established on the North Shore. The land for the Cemetery was donated to the Anglican Parish of St Leonards in 1845 (St. Thomas’ Church) by the prominent landowner and merchant, Alexander Berry. Berry donated four acres of his northern portion of land to the parish for a prominent burial place for his wife, Elizabeth (Edward Wollstonecraft’s sister). Subsequently Edward and Alexander were buried there.
The Cemetery contains the graves of many notable local residents and mirrors the development of the district over a one hundred year period. The first burial was recorded in 1847 and the last in 1950.
In 1967 the Cemetery was handed over to North Sydney Council by an Act of Parliament granting the area as `community land’. It was renamed St. Thomas’ Rest Park and reopened in 1974 following the conversion of the Cemetery in the early 1970s. This was North Sydney Council’s first heritage project.
Ref: www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au/www/html/2270-st-thomas-rest-p…
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I like the photo and the information about the park is very interesting.
Thanks for the link.
Graet photo – and interesting story of the lower north shore AK.
HI Amit… I am a chinese living in Macau.
I love your photos too. You have a good sense when taking photos.
And the photos are beautiful .