An intriguing look at the establishment and development of one of Australia's largest cemeteries whose Trust also administers the Old Melbourne and St Kilda cemeteries.

Not just of interest to academics and professionals in the industry, but entertaining and informative for anyone with an interest in our collective remains.

Table of Contents An Introduction to The Necropolis, Springvale; Early Dreams of a New Melbourne Metropolitan Cemetery at Spring Vale; Founding Principles of The Necropolis at Springvale; Putting Ideas into Practice at the Embryonic Necropolis; Farming the Necropolis During 'the Great War'; The Challenge of Motor Hearses and Electric Mortuary Trains; The Necropolis in the Great Depression; The Necropolis, Another World War, and Post-war Reconstruction; A Modern Necropolis Emerges in the 1960s; The Necropolis in the 1970s and 1980s and Planning for a New Crematorium; The Melbourne General Cemetery at Carlton, and St Kilda Cemetery; The Necropolis at the Dawn of a New Millennium; Index.