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Entrance to the gaol, c. 1936 In the 1850s, the district where the gaol was subsequently located was known unofficially as "Boggo" or "Boggo Scrub", and by the late 1850s the track through the area was known as Boggo Road.
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 ...
When Toowoomba became an assize town there was a need for a gaol to house criminals arrested on the Darling Downs, the Maranoa and Warrego awaiting trial and for those convicted. The Queensland Colonial Architect's plans for the new gaol to be erected behind the courthouse were completed by 12 February 1862. Godfrey and Johnstone started work ...
[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]
Plaque at the burial site in South Brisbane Cemetery of those hanged at Boggo Road Gaol. Silva's name is third from the bottom. Agnes Ching, wife of Charles Ching; Maud [a] Ching, 17, [b] daughter of Charles Ching; Teddy Ching, 10, son of Charles Ching; Dolly Ching, 8, daughter of Charles Ching; Hugh [c] Ching, 4, son of Charles Ching
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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