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xenithNow I am going to finish this tonight, no matter how long it gets. You've been warned.
That's as much as focus as I felt when I took the photo :)
A non-building to start with. Part of the site of the Separate Apartments, built 1840s (dotted line).
The first block of 102 cells formed a rectangle nearly 85 m by 20.5 m. They were built to keep the worst behaved and suspected homosexual convicts completely separate. Improvements and additions were commenced until, at the very end of 1848, the complex consisted of 205 cells in two tiers. The 1846 cells were 3.05 m high, 2.44 m long and 1.22 m wide whereas the earlier cells were wider, longer but not as high. You can see where the two storey level is indicated by joists in the wall of the Bakehouse close to the oven's chimney. The building was derelict and housed pigs in 1876. Within ten years, the bricks were used to pave roads or build Bernacchi's cottages prior to the erection of the Coffee Palace where one complete cell exists beneath the floorboards.
View of inside, outside (long building at front) and plan and elevation.
Bakehouse, on left, and Clothing Store (3), c. 1842
Each mess of ten convicts were entitled to five 1.14 kg loaves per day, with one baker appointed for every 150 prisoners. The oven, still intact, protrudes from the rear of the building. Both baker and cook were appointments for the best behaved. The smaller clothing store was fitted with shelves. Alterations were made in the Industrial Period with the buildings used as a bakery and blacksmith's shop (later a butchery).
So I guess the bit sticking out perpendicular to the bakehouse is the oven?
There's a hole over the door. I don't know there is a hole over the door.
That rear door opens into the clothing store side
I couldn't decide which photo to use, so here's both.
The bakehouse, just in case you couldn't guess. Don't know what's going on with the channel in the floor.
It runs up to what I assume is a bricked in door. Also note the difference in the pavers on either side. Related to one of the later uses? Which went on in which room, it didn't say.
Site of the Solitary Cells (4).
Originally there were 23 punishment cells in a row behind the Bakehouse and Cookhouse. During 1845-46, these ineffective cells were replaced by two blocks of eight double-brick cells, which were soundproof and completely dark. Cells opened alternately front and back so that men could be exercised separately. Only the foundations are visible.
So I don't know what the door in the corner is about. It's bit more than "only the foundations".
Through the door.
The only information for this little building (5) is
Cottage c. 1929
Built on part of the site of the Solitary Cells one of the foundations stands on a sandstone ventilation block from the Separate Apartments. Note the air-holes.
Workers accommodation?
Orientation photo :)
The small building to the left was a Bread Store (6) but now it's a toilet block. Now up to the corner behind that.
At the end is the Mess Room (7)
Imagine 400 men of the 1st and 2nd class convicts seated at 20 tables. Racks contained plates etc and 20 locked boxes held cutlery which was issued only to 1st and 2nd class prisoners. The best of the 1st Class ate in their huts, while 3rd Class ate in the open yard and the 4th Class in their Separate Apartments. The room was used as a school and also served as the Catholic chapel. It was a mess hall in both of the Industrial Periods.
The big brick barn is closer than I expected, although there is the creek in between.
At the back.
The verandah along the front of the Penitentiary (8)
Prisoners were originally held in a smaller log and bark barracks or in huts. The Penitentiary was erected in 1830 using over 200 000 bricks made at the settlement. At first, the building had six rooms of equal size. Five were dormitories and the other was fitted out as a chapel. The men slept, with feet to the wall, in berths 0.6 m wide, in a tier of three bunks about 1 m apart.
In the second convict era, 66 men slept in each of the six rooms, until part of each dividing wall was removed in 1847 to make one large room guarded by a single officer. The men then occupied 282 berths like 'bottles in a bin' separated by wooden battens. In front of the building was a yard with a 3 m high wall and a gate with square brick buildings on either side to hold a prisoners' library and their bedding.
The building was modified in the late 1880s, and again in the 1920s to provide accommodation. The gables and verandah were added in the 1920s and the room alongside the Day Room became the Town Library.
Now it provides very basic accommodation for tourists.
Now into the Day Room & Chapel (9) c. 1847
This was to provide accommodation during wet weather and served as Protestant chapel for the two Sunday Services. A school for convicts was held on Sunday evenings. In the Industrial periods it became a community hall, State School, cinema, church and later a shearing shed. The original stone floor has recently been exposed.
Finally, a row of three cottages (10). What looks like a fourth one is actually the chapel building.
The leftmost was for the Assistant Superintendents. The middle one was originally the home of the Catholic clergyman but was later home to William Smith O'Brien, and then the leftmost cottage was added for the clergyman.
The middle one there is open and it had a display about O'Brien, but I might keep that for another day.
Photo of them from about 1900.
Out through the back door though (that's where the ghost got to) and then around the corner
and there are two rooms that I seem to recall were used by the five Maoris exiled "for rebellion against the Queen" but I can't find anything to confirm this now.
That's as much as focus as I felt when I took the photo :)
A non-building to start with. Part of the site of the Separate Apartments, built 1840s (dotted line).
The first block of 102 cells formed a rectangle nearly 85 m by 20.5 m. They were built to keep the worst behaved and suspected homosexual convicts completely separate. Improvements and additions were commenced until, at the very end of 1848, the complex consisted of 205 cells in two tiers. The 1846 cells were 3.05 m high, 2.44 m long and 1.22 m wide whereas the earlier cells were wider, longer but not as high. You can see where the two storey level is indicated by joists in the wall of the Bakehouse close to the oven's chimney. The building was derelict and housed pigs in 1876. Within ten years, the bricks were used to pave roads or build Bernacchi's cottages prior to the erection of the Coffee Palace where one complete cell exists beneath the floorboards.
View of inside, outside (long building at front) and plan and elevation.
Bakehouse, on left, and Clothing Store (3), c. 1842
Each mess of ten convicts were entitled to five 1.14 kg loaves per day, with one baker appointed for every 150 prisoners. The oven, still intact, protrudes from the rear of the building. Both baker and cook were appointments for the best behaved. The smaller clothing store was fitted with shelves. Alterations were made in the Industrial Period with the buildings used as a bakery and blacksmith's shop (later a butchery).
So I guess the bit sticking out perpendicular to the bakehouse is the oven?
There's a hole over the door. I don't know there is a hole over the door.
That rear door opens into the clothing store side
I couldn't decide which photo to use, so here's both.
The bakehouse, just in case you couldn't guess. Don't know what's going on with the channel in the floor.
It runs up to what I assume is a bricked in door. Also note the difference in the pavers on either side. Related to one of the later uses? Which went on in which room, it didn't say.
Site of the Solitary Cells (4).
Originally there were 23 punishment cells in a row behind the Bakehouse and Cookhouse. During 1845-46, these ineffective cells were replaced by two blocks of eight double-brick cells, which were soundproof and completely dark. Cells opened alternately front and back so that men could be exercised separately. Only the foundations are visible.
So I don't know what the door in the corner is about. It's bit more than "only the foundations".
Through the door.
The only information for this little building (5) is
Cottage c. 1929
Built on part of the site of the Solitary Cells one of the foundations stands on a sandstone ventilation block from the Separate Apartments. Note the air-holes.
Workers accommodation?
Orientation photo :)
The small building to the left was a Bread Store (6) but now it's a toilet block. Now up to the corner behind that.
At the end is the Mess Room (7)
Imagine 400 men of the 1st and 2nd class convicts seated at 20 tables. Racks contained plates etc and 20 locked boxes held cutlery which was issued only to 1st and 2nd class prisoners. The best of the 1st Class ate in their huts, while 3rd Class ate in the open yard and the 4th Class in their Separate Apartments. The room was used as a school and also served as the Catholic chapel. It was a mess hall in both of the Industrial Periods.
The big brick barn is closer than I expected, although there is the creek in between.
At the back.
The verandah along the front of the Penitentiary (8)
Prisoners were originally held in a smaller log and bark barracks or in huts. The Penitentiary was erected in 1830 using over 200 000 bricks made at the settlement. At first, the building had six rooms of equal size. Five were dormitories and the other was fitted out as a chapel. The men slept, with feet to the wall, in berths 0.6 m wide, in a tier of three bunks about 1 m apart.
In the second convict era, 66 men slept in each of the six rooms, until part of each dividing wall was removed in 1847 to make one large room guarded by a single officer. The men then occupied 282 berths like 'bottles in a bin' separated by wooden battens. In front of the building was a yard with a 3 m high wall and a gate with square brick buildings on either side to hold a prisoners' library and their bedding.
The building was modified in the late 1880s, and again in the 1920s to provide accommodation. The gables and verandah were added in the 1920s and the room alongside the Day Room became the Town Library.
Now it provides very basic accommodation for tourists.
Now into the Day Room & Chapel (9) c. 1847
This was to provide accommodation during wet weather and served as Protestant chapel for the two Sunday Services. A school for convicts was held on Sunday evenings. In the Industrial periods it became a community hall, State School, cinema, church and later a shearing shed. The original stone floor has recently been exposed.
Finally, a row of three cottages (10). What looks like a fourth one is actually the chapel building.
The leftmost was for the Assistant Superintendents. The middle one was originally the home of the Catholic clergyman but was later home to William Smith O'Brien, and then the leftmost cottage was added for the clergyman.
The middle one there is open and it had a display about O'Brien, but I might keep that for another day.
Photo of them from about 1900.
Out through the back door though (that's where the ghost got to) and then around the corner
and there are two rooms that I seem to recall were used by the five Maoris exiled "for rebellion against the Queen" but I can't find anything to confirm this now.
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Date: 2010-04-22 10:18 am (UTC)