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Old Melbourne Gaol (1498 words) |
 | The Old Melbourne Gaol complex is historically and architecturally significant as one of the early gaols in Australia built using up-to-date gaol principles, and is the oldest surviving penal establishment in Victoria. |
| One of Melbourne's best-concealed 19th century tunnels was dug by inmates of the Old Melbourne Gaol in the 1870s. |
| Importance of Melbourne Gaol Ned Kelly was hung in the Melbourne Gaol, his mother was a prisoner in the same gaol at the time. |
| Old Melbourne Gaol - Central Melbourne [C.B.D ] - Sightseeing - Only Melbourne (555 words) |
| Old Melbourne Gaol dominated the Melbourne skyline as a symbol of authority when it was built in the mid 1800s. |
| A second gaol was built in 1841-4, adjoining the then Supreme Court at the corner of Russell and La Trobe Streets, but this was entirely demolished early in the twentieth century when the Magistrate's Court complex was built. |
| For example, seventeen jailer's houses on Swanston St (1860), a hospital in one of the yards (1864) and a chief warders house on the corner of Franklin and Russell Sts. |
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