Step back in time
and trace the journey of our early settlers by participating in a tour of our
local cemeteries, to be hosted by Campbelltown City Council’s Library Service in
celebration of this year’s National Trust Heritage Festival.
The festival will
run from 12 April to 26 May and celebrates the theme, ‘Journeys’.
Embracing this year’s festival theme, Campbelltown
City Library will host a walking tour of St Peter’s Anglican Cemetery on Wednesday
30 April, and of St John’s Catholic Cemetery on Thursday 8 May. Both tours will
be held from 11am to midday and will focus on convicts interred in the cemeteries
and their ‘journey’ from their homeland to Campbelltown. Cost is free, but bookings are
essential. Participants will meet at the front gate of each cemetery at 11am.
Accompanying the tours will be a display
at HJ Daley Library featuring the lives of the convicts discussed in the tours.
The display will
also feature Campbelltown library staff that settled in Australia from overseas,
highlighting their journey as refugees or migrants.
For more information, or to book for the tours, phone 4645 4436 or visit
campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/whatson
Visit nationaltrust.org.au for more National
Trust Festival events.
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