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Redevelopment of the surrounding site began in 2006, leading to the temporary closure of the Boggo Road Gaol historical site. Since 2012 the gaol has been re-opened to the public. [10] Boggo Road has since been turned into an urban village called Boggo Road Urban Village and was completed in 2010. [13] [14]
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The gaol was closed in 1903 after the prisoners were transferred to Boggo Road Gaol [5] and demolition commenced. Some of the hand-made bricks (using clay dug from pits in Queens Park [ 3 ] ) from the demolished structure were used to build the Boer Wall Memorial Gateway [ 4 ] at the Margaret Street end of East Creek Park near the Mother's ...
The gaol was intended to function as the principal prison in north Queensland. It was the only maximum-security prison established in North Queensland in the nineteenth century, ranking alongside St Helena Gaol (opened in 1866), the Rockhampton Gaol at North Street (1876–1878), and the South Brisbane Men's Prison at Boggo Road (opened 1883 ...
Site map, 2018. Dutton Park State School occupies a 2.036-hectare (5.03-acre) site in Dutton Park, a suburb approximately 2.67km south of the Brisbane CBD. The school is accessed via a driveway connected to Annerley Road to the west and a walkway connected to the Boggo Road Busway to the east. The site is bounded on its other sides by a train ...
[5] [6] Austin became the last convict to be executed at Boggo Road Gaol and the last in Queensland, when in 1922 it became the first state in Australia and the first government in the British Empire to abolish the death penalty. The ghost of Austin is said to haunt the Boggo Road Gaol, particularly at night during storms. [2] [7]
Dawson, Christopher; Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society (2008), The one and only Boggo Road : the history of a unique suburban street (1st ed.), Inside History (Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society), ISBN 978-0-9804174-1-8
The gaol was eventually built on an unproclaimed reserve in Borck street (now Haig street) and was a far more modest four cells. The Police Gaol proclamation was rescinded in 1893 when it was proclaimed a prison. The deferment of the status of prison is an indication of the stature of Normanton amongst townships in the Carpentaria Gulf region.