Talk:Old Melbourne Gaol

Interesting article

This is an interesting article, but it could do with serious expansion. Is it STILL a gaol. If not, then when did it close and what is it today?

The building is currently a museum. I'll look into it more and provide updates when I can. I haven't visited myself for many many years. I've added this information to the article. -- Longhair | Talk 07:23, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I just took another look. The article already mentioned it closed as a prison in 1926, and "it currently exhibits 19th century gaol life, including the death masks and memorabilia of some of Melbourne's most notorious criminals". A museum :) I'll see what expansions I can muster up. -- Longhair | Talk 07:27, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Executions table

Unless we can find a good source, I suggest that we remove the table of people who were hanged:

• I could not find the information in the reference that was given.
• The text says there were 135 hangings, but I counted 48 people in the table.
• I removed the "murder" designations from the first six entries in the table. I consider that information even more suspect, because it was added as part of an edit that included a comment that I removed as inappropriate.

Peter Chastain (talk) 02:23, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

I have recently updated the table, and corrected the first batch of entries based on a photo taken at the Old Melbourne Gaol, of a plaque which lists the names of those executed - yes, I know this is original research, but it has to be more correct than it was previously. Jwoodger (talk) 02:59, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

In the news

Just for information: This article quotes a number of key sentences in this Wikipedia article. Jwoodger (talk) 00:31, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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