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. 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.
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