Camperdown Cemetery
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Camperdown Cemetery is a historic cemetery located on Church Street in Newtown, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The cemetery was founded in 1848 and was for twenty years th
Camperdown Cemetery is an "oasis" in a densely built-up area.
Camperdown Cemetery
Aerial view over Camperdown Cemetery before resumption, July 1946
The grave of Major Mitchell, Surveyor General
Eliza Emily Donnithorne
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Eliza Emily Donnithorne was an Australian woman best known as a possible inspiration for the character of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
Camperdown Cemetery
…2001, the gateposts have been repositioned and the original gates restored. The vandalised gravestone of one of the cemetery's best-known inhabitants, Eliza Emily Donnithorne, a jilted bride who may have inspired Charles Dickens' creation of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, has been restored. The lodge is a small cottage…
The gravestones of Eliza Donnithorne and her father James in Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown.
Cambridge Hall (known as Camperdown Lodge by the time this photo was taken), Eliza Donnithorne's Newtown home.