Shared Pathway Opens to Purewa’s Beauty

Shared Pathway Opens to Purewa’s Beauty

Pictured above: MP Simon O’Connor, Auckland City Councillor Desley Simpson, Purewa General Manager Alastair Crombie, and Purewa Trust Board Chair Erica Jenkins enjoy the view of Purewa from the heights of the pathway bridge. Purewa Cemetery has an impressive new...
Children and Teenagers Graves Inspire Students

Children and Teenagers Graves Inspire Students

  As seventeen-year-old Sophie Hawes wandered through the old gravesites at St Stephen’s Church in Parnell, something about the headstones surprised her. Several marked the resting place of children and teenagers. And they were in desperate need of cleaning. This...
Change in Pre-Purchase Burial Plot Policy

Change in Pre-Purchase Burial Plot Policy

Auckland’s ballooning population has forced the Purewa Cemetery Trust Board to discontinue the pre-purchase of burial plots at the 132-year-old cemetery. Previously families could pre-purchase plots as part of a long-term plan as to where to bury their loved ones....
John and Pip Gray

John and Pip Gray

The gardens at Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium are looking blooming beautiful thanks to the specialist skills of contract gardening duo John and Pip Gray. John is a qualified landscape designer and stonemason with more than 35 years’ experience and his wife Pip is a...
From Rags to Riches

From Rags to Riches

A fascinating ‘rags to riches’ story is the life of Henry Edward Partridge, who joined the Navy in England aged 13 with minimal education to become the wealthy owner of a large collection of Gottfried Lindauer paintings of Maori. Partridge, who is buried at Purewa...
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