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Woronora Memorial Park (often referred to as Woronora Cemetery) is a cemetery in Woronora, Sydney, Australia.




History


Woronora Cemetery was established in 1895 with the first burial on 2 April 1895. In 1902 the Devonshire Street Cemetery was closed to make way for Central railway station and some graves were relocated to Woronora. The first cremation occurred in April 1934.
The cemetery is managed by Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries NSW (officially "Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Land Manager"), consisting of Woronora Memorial Park and Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, which replaced the Woronora Memorial Park Trust upon gazettal on 3 August 2012.




Crematorium


The original crematorium building, incorporating two chapels and a dual-furnace crematory, was completed in 1934 in the Inter-war Art Deco style by architect Louis Leighton Robertson of Louis S. Robertson & Son, architects, and built by Norman R. Smith, builder of Bexley. Robertson also designed crematoriums in a similar style at Matraville (1938), Kembla Grange (1955), and Beresfield (1936). The crematorium was officially opened on 21 April 1934 by the Colonial Secretary, Frank Chaffey.
In 2018, the 1934 crematorium was decommissioned and a new crematorium able to accommodate the increasing demand for cremations was completed to a design by architects Gardner Wetherill Associates.




Transport


A 750-metre railway line opened on 28 July 1900 branching off the Illawarra railway line at Sutherland terminating at Woronora Cemetery railway station. It closed on 23 May 1947.




Notable people


Notable people interred at Woronora Cemetery include:

Carl Akhurst, politician
Henry Bachtold, soldier and railway engineer
Harry Bath, rugby league
Tiger Black, rugby league
Brian Clay, rugby league
William Matthew Currey, Victoria Cross
Thomas Dunlea, Catholic priest
John Patrick Hamilton, Victoria Cross recipient
Stanley Haviland, public servant
Frank Jenner, evangelist
Tom Killiby, rugby league
Elias C. Laycock, rower
John Harold Mostyn, rugby league
Norman Oakes, public servant
John Radecki, master stained glass artist
Blair Wark, Victoria Cross recipient




References






External links


Woronora Memorial Park
Media related to Woronora Cemetery at Wikimedia Commons

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Woronora Memorial Park
• Sutherland, New South Wales
• Blair Wark
• Clara Dunn
• Woronora Cemetery railway station
• John Patrick Hamilton
• William Currey
• Tiger Black
• Henry Bachtold
• Thomas Dunlea