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| Trial Bay Gaol near South West Rocks |
I have camped here at the base of these ruins. On this occasion when I visited I had learned a great deal more about world politics and the past wars in the world and the past atrocities committed against the people of German descent who were residents here at the turn of the century when the War broke out overseas. They called these people internes and they were imprisoned for being the people who they were.
There was rumored to be a German vessel moored out to sea off South West Rocks and so the inmates were all moved back to other prisons in Sydney and the Trial Bay Gaol was closed for a final time in 1918.
In the beginning in 1861 the concept to construct a breakwall off Laggers Point to make Trial Bay into a harbour and a safe place for ships to wait out bad weather.
These plans included the ideas to use prisoners for the hard labour construction. So the prison was purpose built specifically for this. 1877 saw work commence and in 1886 it was proclaimed a prison and inmates moved there.
A fifteen hundred meter wall is what was proposed at the onset of construction but the sea was unforgivable and only 300 meters of wall was constructed and this took years and in the mean time the bad filled up with sand because they had changed the currents into the natural bay. Work on the wall stopped. Prisoners were sent back to Sydney and the old Gaol was empty for 12 years. In 1915 the gaol was reopened to hold German wartime internees.
Lagger's Point is a headland on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is the end of the north pointing peninsula which is the eastern side of Trial Bay. Out at Laggers Point the Gaol sat abandoned and ruined and it was the target of vadalism for many many years but in
There was rumored to be a German vessel moored out to sea off South West Rocks and so the inmates were all moved back to other prisons in Sydney and the Trial Bay Gaol was closed for a final time in 1918.
In the beginning in 1861 the concept to construct a breakwall off Laggers Point to make Trial Bay into a harbour and a safe place for ships to wait out bad weather.
These plans included the ideas to use prisoners for the hard labour construction. So the prison was purpose built specifically for this. 1877 saw work commence and in 1886 it was proclaimed a prison and inmates moved there.
A fifteen hundred meter wall is what was proposed at the onset of construction but the sea was unforgivable and only 300 meters of wall was constructed and this took years and in the mean time the bad filled up with sand because they had changed the currents into the natural bay. Work on the wall stopped. Prisoners were sent back to Sydney and the old Gaol was empty for 12 years. In 1915 the gaol was reopened to hold German wartime internees.
Lagger's Point is a headland on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It is the end of the north pointing peninsula which is the eastern side of Trial Bay. Out at Laggers Point the Gaol sat abandoned and ruined and it was the target of vadalism for many many years but in
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