The Kimihia Cemetery (Huntly Old Cemetery), established in the late 1800s near Huntly in the Waikato region, serves as a historical record of the area's coal mining expansion, containing graves from the Ralph Mine disaster of 1914 that killed 43 miners, alongside graves spanning from the 1800s to the 1980s, demonstrating how cemeteries preserve community history and industrial heritage.
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Look.
I just saw that flag moving there.
Welcome along to another cemetery to explore.
This is Paul from Sunny Blends in here with the completely cemetery. Sorry about that.
This cemetery is started in the late 1800s.
Uh yeah, sorry.
Um there was a mining disaster.
Which has graves from that cemetery that disaster in the cemetery somewhere.
I don't know, I'm sorry.
Got it.
Most cemeteries seem a lot of cemeteries seem to have the old flagpole.
So yeah, it's going to go get some of these graves.
So that's a 1974 one.
Uh 1982. So these ones aren't that old.
That looks a bit older over there.
I don't know why sometimes people just cruise cemeteries in their cars.
And I'm doing an explore here, but I don't know, it's a little weird actually.
And then I'm guess I'm doing the same thing, so maybe hypocritical.
These ones over here seem like they could be a little older.
There's a tall one over there.
I can't really read the dates on these ones.
1985 Oh, yeah.
This here.
This cemetery seems to have changed its name a few times.
It became the Hartley Cemetery and then changed its name back, I think.
And we're starting to get an older section.
Yeah.
I can make it 1900 1906.
And that's 1909.
Lots of leaves and undergrowth here.
1936 there.
So, these are ones from the very early very early um 1900s.
>> [music] >> Holy [ __ ] I saw that flag moving there.
And it scared the hell out of me.
>> [laughter] >> Yeah, sorry about that. Back again.
That scared the hell out of me. I'm going to go look at that in a minute, but now um yeah, the morning was after was a real morning this after.
And about 8 1909.
So, yeah.
But, um I must say, yeah, yeah, killed quite a few people.
And they're glad to hear some here, but this isn't that. This is 1907.
1962 there.
And that's a little family here, I guess.
Um Yeah, this is a Davis and his wife.
And Hm.
I don't get how that works.
Oh, yeah, this is a flag that scared the hell out of me.
It sort of behind it pre like there's something there.
And it's a Oh, is that a It's draft beer.
Now just look at the flag, mate.
Yeah, Waikato.
Waikato graph.
Yeah, 1954. So, these ones aren't that old. But, there are obviously older ones mixed in here.
And like the early 1900s, I mean this one 1800s, right? But, I guess they're here somewhere.
1947 Okay, I don't know if it's definitely that's it. It lagged when you had that.
Um Yeah.
It's got my heart racing a bit so I don't know if I'm just a speaking stuff now.
John Jackson He died in 1914.
Huh.
Was the um mining disaster there?
You see a little angel cross there.
Looks like a person standing here, too.
Um this is This is an interesting display.
Ah, here we go, the Ralph mining disaster.
I did have in 1914.
43 did.
And these are the the graves here.
We're here, so yeah.
That grave there.
This part of that.
I'm going to stand back and get a good picture of that.
So, we're there.
That one over there is That one over there is part of it.
And we have obviously some along there, which are some along there, which are part as well.
But that is just the railways just along here.
This used to be the main state highway.
It's now been moved further up there with the motorway.
Or the Waikanae Express Way, as it's called, I believe.
After work.
Hmm.
Another car parked up this back.
That's quite an interesting one.
Yeah, another one of the Ralph Mine disaster ones.
And I guess another Ralph Mine disaster one. Yeah, I got a few in here from the the mine disaster.
Oh, they got a new section going over there as well.
Um are we working on the banks of the Waikato River here? I think we are.
I think we are. Just over the bank there will be the Waikato River.
The mighty Waikato.
Yeah, so walking back up this way again.
If you get the leaves falling down, you always get a little leaves falling down so that kind of makes a little spooky noise.
Um Let's take a walk down this way and just have a quick look.
1952 So, can get into the 50 and stuff along here.
Um, got a lot of leaves and stuff around but they We are in autumn or fall of your American time.
I'm not in a good season.
It's got the trees making noises and leaves falling and stuff.
It's always yep.
You see the Waikato River.
Yep, so we were over there.
This is pretty much new but That looks like a clean a blue one there.
I see these are fairly new as well.
That's quite interesting. I mean there's some that's a little bit older.
So 1 2 3 Um, 1 2 Eight isn't it? Eight-sided.
Don't make me do my maths.
Pentagon, isn't it?
Pentagon.
>> Let's go and take a look at that blue one across here.
I don't know if people come under cemetery to use the um the public in the cemetery to use is other public toilets in town.
I guess.
So, I don't know.
Oh, okay.
So, a mother and baby.
All right, 1974 to 2003.
There's obviously a story behind that one.
Let's all move back a bit without falling over another stone.
Give you guys a good look at it.
All right, that's another explore done at Dasset. I'll catch you on the next cemetery spot in the next video.
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