![]() “It’s important to know what happened on the streets that we still walk on, what happened to the people who lived in the houses that we still live in”, says Chris.Īnd the two history buffs have a new true crime edition due out in April 2019 that is bound to be a page turner. But it spreads its net wide, including stories of everyday people buried in Lutwyche Cemetery, Lutwyche Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, South Brisbane Cemetery at Dutton Park, Balmoral Cemetery and God’s Acre at Archerfield. Theirs are just two of the accounts that are explained within the Grave Tales: Brisbane pages. ![]() The way that they lead their lives couldn’t have been more contrasting, a fact that’s reflected in the style of their headstones. In their words, “The series will travel Australia providing ‘nomads’ the chance to explore our history on their travels.”īoxer Peter Jackson and fraudster Walter Porriott are both remembered at Toowong Cemetery. Grave Tales: Bruce Highway, Grave Tales: Sydney and Grave Tales: Great Ocean Road Country, are others in the collection. ![]() ![]() It was the first of what is a growing library, that has the pair uncovering life stories and hunting for history in graveyards across Queensland, and down Australia’s eastern seaboard. Grave Tales: Brisbaneis a literary collaboration by journalists Chris Adams and Helen Goltz, who dug deep into the past to uncover some lesser-known, but intriguing stories of people buried in five of the city’s cemeteries. ![]()
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