There are concerns about the dilapidated state of some headstones at the Toowong Cemetery, with some locals taking to social media to vent their frustration.

The graveyard is the biggest in Queensland, and the burial place for over 120,000 people.

Jack Sim, the director of Historic Australia, runs tours at the cemetery and described it as one of Brisbane’s most important historical treasures, and the resting place of thousands of people.

But with the average grave over 80 years old, there’s a growing dilemma about the maintenance of the sites and headstones.

In the past, some grave sites have also been the target of vandals.

“Brisbane City Council maintains the cemetery and its ground, but the individual graves are owned by private families,” he told Laurel, Gary and Mark on 4BC Breakfast.

“Most people their families have moved on, or they didn’t know the people buried there.

“After these big terrible acts of vandalism the council has restored graves in the past and stepped in and played that role.

“It is a real dilemma, who pays for these graves when they just naturally grow old and fall, and collapse.

“The answer is not an easy one.”

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Darcy Maddock, president of the Friends of the Toowong Cemetery, told Sofie Formica in his view, all of the headstones are of historic value.

But, it’s a costly exercise to restore them.

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