Symonds Street Cemetery
Colonial-era burial ground cut through by a motorway, with graves relocated into two memorial walls.
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This guide to Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland opens with the burial ground's founding in 1842, the same year Auckland's first governor, William Hobson, was laid to rest here with Maori mourners firing muskets into the air. It follows the cemetery's growth across Anglican, Catholic, Jewish and Presbyterian ground, then the 1960s motorway builders who cut straight through the hillside. Listen for what the engineers found when the digging began.
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