Old Melbourne Gaol

Today we visited the Old Melburne Gaol and the old city police watch house next door. Both located not far from the Queen Victoria Market.




The jail itself was very eerie inside and housed a collection of death masks, plaster casts taken after the convicts hanging. There were some very interesting and disturbing stories throughout.








The most famous of these convicts being Ned Kelly, his death mask is displayed at the end of the cell block. He was hung at the jail in November 1880.









Ater spending some time in the old cell block we had a very entertaining tour of the old police watch house. An actress dressed as a police officer processed all of us into the station and placed us in segregated cells for men and women.









Following this bit of theatre we were allowed to wander around the old station and cells before ending our tour,