F is for... Female Factory
Apr. 28th, 2012 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithCascade Female Factory, although I'm not going to talk about the background to the site or factories in general because I have before and there are better places to read it. So, if you have no idea what I'm about, check the links. If you do, or don't care, stay here and look at pretty pictures.
The first time I came here was about 1999, and the site was just this yard, with a fudge factory next door who did tours of the site once a week. It has changed considerably since then, reflecting the increased interest in researching female convicts, which combines two areas of history that were once neglected but are now quite popular.
I didn't think it'd been that long since my last visit here, but there are obvious developments. Some of which are noticeable from the street.
This photo is actually from 2005, but it looks the same as it did years earlier. You can probably guess from this photo what looks different from out in the street.
Mostly the area was just a lot of grass, with that stuff over in the corner.
Now looking from that back corner, you can see it has gained a two-storey, covered thing.
Also from the back corner, I did a silly panorama thing. Click on it to get the bigger version.
Before going down to the two-storey, covered thing for a closer look, some photos of bits of the yard.
The stuff in the corner is some information panels that give the history of the site over the years.
The walls are interesting, because they have blocked off doors and bits where the intermediate floors were and other stuff.
The view from the two-storey, covered thing isn't all that interesting.
Although you can see over into the next yard. Heading there now, through that doorway.
I'd spent the previous day telling people to crouch down, watch their heads, be careful of the low beams. That is not low headroom.
This is Yard 3. The covered thing is display from an archaeological dig, earlier in the century. Off to the left
is the memorial garden.
There are some plaques in there too.
As I said, the development of the site started after the late 90s :)
Looking from garden, towards the main entrance and the archaeological exhibition, which I'm going over to now.
Although it is a bit sunny, and camera does not like that.
Another new development, an information centre and small shop.
As I leave this past, look back towards Yard 1 and Mt Wellington.
Further along the road, is the remains of Yard 4 (nursery wing) and the matron's cottage.
That wall, like the one in front of the previous yard/visitor centre, is made from bits of rocks enclosed in mesh. It's another of the new developments.
And to finish off, that's the street running along the side.
The first time I came here was about 1999, and the site was just this yard, with a fudge factory next door who did tours of the site once a week. It has changed considerably since then, reflecting the increased interest in researching female convicts, which combines two areas of history that were once neglected but are now quite popular.
I didn't think it'd been that long since my last visit here, but there are obvious developments. Some of which are noticeable from the street.
This photo is actually from 2005, but it looks the same as it did years earlier. You can probably guess from this photo what looks different from out in the street.
Mostly the area was just a lot of grass, with that stuff over in the corner.
Now looking from that back corner, you can see it has gained a two-storey, covered thing.
Also from the back corner, I did a silly panorama thing. Click on it to get the bigger version.
Before going down to the two-storey, covered thing for a closer look, some photos of bits of the yard.
The stuff in the corner is some information panels that give the history of the site over the years.
The walls are interesting, because they have blocked off doors and bits where the intermediate floors were and other stuff.
The view from the two-storey, covered thing isn't all that interesting.
Although you can see over into the next yard. Heading there now, through that doorway.
I'd spent the previous day telling people to crouch down, watch their heads, be careful of the low beams. That is not low headroom.
This is Yard 3. The covered thing is display from an archaeological dig, earlier in the century. Off to the left
is the memorial garden.
There are some plaques in there too.
As I said, the development of the site started after the late 90s :)
Looking from garden, towards the main entrance and the archaeological exhibition, which I'm going over to now.
Although it is a bit sunny, and camera does not like that.
Another new development, an information centre and small shop.
As I leave this past, look back towards Yard 1 and Mt Wellington.
Further along the road, is the remains of Yard 4 (nursery wing) and the matron's cottage.
That wall, like the one in front of the previous yard/visitor centre, is made from bits of rocks enclosed in mesh. It's another of the new developments.
And to finish off, that's the street running along the side.
