At a time when heritage buildings are given short shrift,the care taken over the Retford Park homestead gives hopeIn an unmarked corner of the millionaire philanthropist James Fairfax’s sprawling southern highlands estate, Retford Park, and sits a small cemetery.
Tiny headstones bear names carved on to them: there’s Benedict Fairfax who died in 1974; Cordelia Fairfax and Juliet Fairfax,who both died in 1979. More recent additions to the family graveyard include Max and Paloma, Juno and Apollo.
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Source: theguardian.com