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| These are from the top of Queen Victoria's Shopping Centre. You could find references to Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II everywhere. |
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| Giant Salmon along the river walk |
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| This was outside St. Anne's |
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| These were gifts to St. Anne's |
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| I think these were the original communion dishes for St. Anne's |
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| This is a St. Patrick's Thanksgiving parade. The man we talked to said it was to celebrate and give thanks for "the orange" - meaning Protestantism. |
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| Seahorses! |
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| This used to be the watchtower. It used to be that doctors who wanted to do research on human corpses would pay grave robbers, or, as Charles Dickens calls them, "Resurrection Men" to steal fresh corpses for their research. This tower was erected so the loved ones of the recently dead could keep watch over the cemetery at night and protect their loved ones' bodies from grave robbers. |
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| This is the grave marker for one John Murdoch, aged 17. From what we could make out, he died from a bullet wound while saving "another creature" from the same fate. 17. |
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| View of one of the hills at the end of the day. |
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