• Today the Old Perth Gaol is a prominent landmark within the WA Museum Boola Bardip complex. Feel the grainy texture of the hand-cut limestone bricks.
  • The Perth Gaol (often referred to as the Old Perth Gaol) was a gaol built in Perth, the state capital of Western Australia...
  • These new prisoners required a larger dedicated housing facility within the city itself and thus, Perth Gaol was built between 1854 and 1856.
  • Photo by Linda Seccaspina 2015 during a Perth Classic Theatre event Return of Convictions for the Period Ending June 14, 1898 Trespass: Jno.
  • At the heart of WA Museum Boola Bardip stands the Old Perth Gaol, the site of our first Museum building, and a space with a very complex, and often dark history.
  • The Old Perth Gaol (built in 1855), one of the museum’s four heritage buildings, stands elegantly in the central courtyard.
  • Tucked away behind the Western Australian museum, the 159-year-old Perth gaol is a well preserved reminder of the convict beginnings of the colony.
  • Abstract. Between 1875 and 1888, Colonial Perth Gaol was the principal gaol within an expansive carceral system.
  • Perth gaols. ... Sir, - Dean Moore in "proving" that the first gaol stood on the present Burt Hall site, has only scratched on the surface of history.