‘A journalistic, musical, dramatic and social power‘ in his adopted home town, Perth. That was how a Melbourne newspaper article described Francis Hart in 1894. Francis quite likely wrote the article himself. Yet the description was not too wild an
East Perth Cemetery
On a hilltop just east of Perth city, nestled between the cricket ground and the racetrack, is a scruffy looking site known as East Perth Cemetery (or officially ‘Cemeteries’ ). There are no manicured lawns or neat rows of gravestones