• 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.
  • 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.
  • These prisoners were confined in Campbell Street Gaol, Hobart or passed through the system between 1873 and 1890.
  • Jack Nevin was his elder brother’s assistant at the Hobart Gaol, Campbell Street during Thomas’ commissions as police photographer in prisons and police courts.
  • Executions at Campbell Street Gaol 1857 - 1946. From notes by Ian Brand. ALEXANDER CULLEN - 18th August 1857.
  • Campbell Street Gaol opened in 1821. It was for adults but it housed a number of children, too.
  • Huge Bunches of Keys, Massive Gates. In the 1950s a young teenager, Brian Rieusset, was an altar boy for the Chapel at the Campbell Street Hobart Gaol.
  • 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...
  • Campbell Street Gaol. Know something about this prison? Anybody can edit this page, so please add some information! Campbell Street Gaol.
  • 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.
  • To address this issue, a larger gaol – nicknamed ‘The Tench’ – was constructed in Campbell Street in 1821 and was expanded over the following decade.
  • Campbell Street Gaol? How about the Ordnance Stores in Salamanca? The answer all comes down to the same man: John Lee Archer.
  • Thomas Gault – Hanged at Campbell Street Gaol for Felonious Assault and Robbery at the Mount Nelson Signal Station – 21 December 1858.
  • 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.