John Flint
I arrived at Chatswood in 1972 to begin establishing a public library. Willoughby was the second last Sydney Council to operate one, though they had resolved to do so in 1876! The Library at Chatswood opened in 1977.
In 1974 Gore Hill Cemetery was closed to burials and the NSW Government appointed an unwilling Willoughby Council as Trustee. I was consigned to pick up the burial records from the Sexton’s Cottage.
After I retired from Council in 1995, I was invited to become a member of the Cemetery Trust, which managed the site from 1986 and reported to the Lands Department. Until the Trust was amalgamated in 2012, I was its Secretary-Treasurer.
Since then, I have been the Archivist of the Friends of the Cemetery.
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