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Lakeside Maintenance and Improvement Works
Maintenance and improvement works to the lake and surrounding area will be occurring over the course of July to October 2020.
Grand Estates
The Trust has identified 10 Grand Estate sites to offer families or individuals to design and erect a sculpture which expresses a celebration of their life, their achievements, their contribution by way of a significant and long lasting visual statement to the culture of a special community and to the natural setting.
The Trust’s vision is that with time, the Cemetery will have encouraged opportunities to create an artistic precinct of sculptural works of art that are timeless, reflective of the Eltham area and the neighbouring culture of Montsalvat.
For further information about Grand Estates, please contact the Secretary.
A Currawong Takes Flight
A CURRAWONG TAKES FLIGHT was the inaugural memorial sculpture in the Cemetery’s Grand Estate collection, commissioned by Harold Mitchell AO, Patron of the Arts and longstanding resident of Nillumbik Shire.
Sculpted by local jeweler and goldsmith Michael Wilson, the piece recognizes two of Eltham’s native species: the Red Box Eucalypt Tree with its beautiful soft green scalloped shaped leaves and the Pied Currawong known for its adept flight patterns and melodic chortle.
This amazing creature is about to leave the loved environs of Eltham for a journey to the unknown heavens.
Visiting Eltham Cemetery
Vehicles
Vehicle access is available weekdays from 7:30am to 4pm, and weekends from 10am to 4pm via entrances on Mount Pleasant Road and Metery Road.
Vehicle access is not available on public holidays that occur on a weekday, with exception of Good Friday and Christmas Day where vehicle access is available between 10am and 4pm.
Funeral corteges should use the Mount Pleasant Road entry, where they will be met by Cemetery staff for further directions.
Pedestrian Access
Pedestrian access is available 24 hours via the Mount Pleasant Road and Metery Road entrances.
Public Transport
The Eltham Town bus service (Route 582) operates from Eltham Train Station and stops opposite the Mount Pleasant road entrance. It is approximately a 6 minute journey.
Buses on routes 901, 902 and 513 stop at the intersection of Main Road and Mount Pleasant Road. It is approximately a 10 minute uphill walk to the Cemetery from the intersection.
Code Red
The Eltham Cemetery Trust does not perform funerals or interment proceedings on any day declared ‘Code Red’ by the Emergency Management Commissioner and the Cemetery will be inaccessible by vehicle.
The Code Red designation represents the worst case scenario conditions for a bushfire (including grass fires).
If a funeral or interment has been arranged to occur on a declared Code Red day or in extreme weather conditions, alternative arrangements will need to be made.
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