Here are the final photos of the area around the Illawarra Brewery which I took last Wednesday.
Lynne Sanders-Braithwaite is an old friend of my blogs, and on Facebook. She has often commented on them or reposted items. When a few years back I posted on the same area I have been revisiting here just recently she and her partner Izzy Foreal – aka Peter Knox – alerted me to a poem related to this place:
Hello Neil, Your posts on the Cemetery have caught my eye. Peter ( Izzy ) included a poem in the book he edited for UOW. Its from the Illawarra Mercury 1858 and is called ” The Seaside Cemetery at Wollongong”. We wondered whether you would like a copy of the anthology of “Early Illawarra Poetry” and I will copy the Cemetery Poem out for you as well. If you like, we have a copy here with your name on it and will send it down. Yrs Lynne.
The book arrived in due course.
I had come across Izzy’s work earlier in relation to a 2008 post on Melinda Kendall.
And now the saddest news:
Neil's Commonplace Book 