On 24 July 2019, Elise Edmunds, Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW, was a guest on Arts Wednesday. The topic of conversation was Dead Central, an exhibition she had curated at the library. The colony had outgrown the old burial ground where the Town Hall sits today and Governor Phillip created a new burial ground in Devonshire Street, where Central Railway stands today. At the time, he could not envisage a city large enough to extend further south! Hear the story of the establishment of the cemetery and its subsequent relocation to Hazlems Creek, now known as Rookwood.
Elise Edmunds talks about a burial ground
