A motorway now runs through Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington’s earliest burial ground. In the 1960s, about 3,700 burials were exhumed to make way for it and reinterred in a vault under the lower lawn. The road was hugely controversial. Headstones were moved as near to their original sites as possible.

The numbers tell the rest. More than 8,500 people were buried here between 1840 and the 1890s. Only 1,334 gravestones are still visible, and fewer than half stand where they began. The moved ones are easy to spot: they sit close together, without fences or bases.

VoiceMap’s Capital Stories tour takes you through the gates, past a sexton’s cottage built in 1857 by soldiers of the 65th Regiment. It then reaches the Memorial Lawn, a restful green space with the traffic thundering past.

The draft runs 17 words under the 150-word aim, which the skill allows. I can add a detail if you want it fuller. The script also mentions that about a quarter of the burials were children, and I left that out to keep the thread on the motorway and the lost headstones.