goulburn

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called GOULBURN, NSW, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called GOULBURN, NSW, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

whatsthatpicture has suggested that this was created circa 1870. View the suggestion on the Commons Tagr app. If you're the image owner, login to approve the suggestion and update the 'date taken' on Flickr.

[See also investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp... ] Google Maps Street View - g.co/maps/yghf8 I did some research on Goulburn Gaol a while back, and think that this is one of a series of photos recording the construction or completion of the new gaol in 1884. See comments for this wonderful photo -

From the Heritage NSW site - www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=5000652 "A gaol has existed in Goulburn since 1841(now the site of the Goulburn Courthouse), although the current correctional centre was built in 1881. For eighty years up to the 1970s, Goulburn was the establishment within the NSW penal system with a particular role in the reformation of first time and young offenders. It had a long history of agricutural and industrial training and education and built up a strong economic and social association with the town of Goulburn (Kerr 1994: iv). The plan for the complex was developed in 1879, in J. Barnet's office under the supervision of William Coles (State Projects 1995; Kerr 1994). It was built by Frederick Lemm of Sydney between 1881 and 1884 at a cost of sixty-one thousand pounds. The new gaol was part of the public works boom in the town during the 1869 - 86 period and boosted employment as well as local industry (State Projects 1995). In 1893 a new wing was added and in 1894, a range of cells were constructed for female prisoners. Areas for agricultural cultivation were introduced in 1897-1899 and a bakery was constructed in 1916."

'Completion of the Goulburn Gaol' article in the SMH 6/8/1883 p.6 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13541089 . It mentions that "the buildings are expected to be finished by the end of the year", And that the cost was about 30,000 pounds (about AU$ 5 million today).

And of passing interest, a wonderfully colourful description of the OLD Goulburn Gaol (where Goulburn Courthouse now stands) - SMH 9/5/1868 p.7 - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13165797