The second stage of Purewa’s popular Walk of Memories for ash interments has been completed. The 250-metre-long extension provides 670 new plots for families to purchase in a tranquil garden-lined setting. All plots will have a granite tablet for inscription by the...
More than 75 people attended Purewa Cemetery’s first Auckland Heritage Festival tours last month.. The tours were part of the festival which is organised by the Auckland Council annually across the city celebrating various aspects of heritage. The theme for this...
Two of Auckland’s early leading citizens were recognised at a ceremony at Purewa last month. Judge Francis Dart Fenton and Sir Edwin Mitchelson were both buried at Purewa but without headstones or plaques to acknowledge their significant contributions to the...
Purewa Cemetery is taking part in the Auckland Council’s Auckland Heritage Festival next month. Purewa will host four separate guided tours led by historians, mostly focusing on some of the early citizens of Auckland from many different walks of life, who helped found...
Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium’s newest building, an almost double in size administration centre, was officially opened recently by the Bishop of Auckland, the Right Reverend Ross Bay. The 170 square metre architecturally designed project has a brick and cedar...
