• The 1943 Royal Commission also heard that the southern section of the Campbell Street Gaol was still in use as cells including four solitary confinement dark cells.
  • H.M. Gaol Hobart or Campbell Street Gaol, a former Australian maximum security prison for males and females, was located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
  • In a new exhibition assisted by Andrew Redfern called UNSHACKLED (2023) proposed for the National Trust at the old Penitentiary, Hobart Gaol, Campbell Street...
  • A Boys' Reformatory did open in 1869. Even so, according to Joan Brown, in 1875, 53 boys aged between eight and 16 years were in Campbell Street Gaol.
  • The photograph above shows Hobart’s Campbell Street Gaol in 1960, looking through the inside gates to the outside world, as a warder opens the main gates.
  • H.M. Gaol Hobart or Campbell Street Gaol, a former Australian maximum security prison for males and females, was located in Hobart, Tasmania.
  • Among those executed at what became known as the Campbell Street Gaol, the Old Hobart Gaol or the H.M. Gaol Hobart was Margaret Coghlin, who had...
  • Popularly known as the Campbell Street Gaol, the former maximum security prison H.M. Gaol Hobart is part of the infamous Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site.
  • Campbell Street Gaol lies right at the heart of Hobart CBD (central business district) and is an important piece of Tasmania’s early history.
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  • Campbell Street. Hobart. TAS. Australia. ... Campbell Street Gaol opened in 1821. It was for adults but it housed a number of children, too.
  • Why was Campbell Street Gaol built in Hobart? ... The gaol’s location was chosen to allow for the simple transfer of convicts from their ships on the waterfront.
  • To address this issue, a larger gaol – nicknamed ‘The Tench’ – was constructed in Campbell Street in 1821 and was expanded over the following decade.