Mysterious Gravestone

[Shaun Hately]

On Thursday, I spent most of the day roaming around the Melbourne 
General Cemetery geocaching. By the standards of Melbourne, this is a 
very historic place - it opened in 1853, only two years after the 
establishment of the colony of Victoria and has quite a few famous 
people living in it.

While wandering, I came across a broken old gravestone. Most of the 
carving on it was worn away, but what was left was, to me at least, 
fascinating.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/MysteriousGravestone.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/GraveStoneDetail.jpg

It just inspired odd feelings in me to look at it. For reasons, I can't 
explain - perhaps just to do with the imminent release of the final 
movie, I had all sorts of eerie feelings that were Harry Potter 
related... it's hard to describe, but I was thinking of the grave of Tom 
Riddle, the Horcruxes, the Hallows...

Just odd.

A few other interesting gravestones:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/GravestoneOfEdwardThompson.jpg

A Police Sub-Inspector who died catching bushrangers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/GravestoneOfWalterLindrum.jpg

Walter Lindrum OBE - World Billiards Champion, 1933-1950.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/GravestoneOfJamesScullin-1.jpg

John Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia 1927-1929, just crammed in 
among everybody else (there are two other Prime Ministers buried in the 
cemetery along with a memorial stone to Harold Holt, the Prime Minister 
Australia managed to lose - it's very careless to just lose your Head of 
Government, but we managed it) but they are in a special section of the 
Cemetery. Scullin just got buried like anybody else.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/drednort/GravestoneOfPeterLalor-1.jpg

Peter Lalor - Leader of Australia's Eureka Rebellion - and later Speaker 
of the Victorian Parliament.