Trial Bay gaol (jail), laggers point, South West rocks

Trial Bay Gaol (Jail), Laggers Point, South West Rocks - feature photo

Back in the September 2009 visited Dorota and I trial Bay gaol if we a weekend towards the dive fish rock cave at South West rocks posted.

Laggers point provides a dramatic backdrop for trial Bay gaol (jail). It is the only example of a station prison who designed a public works to carry out.Exceptionally hard local granite built the nearby Hill, it creates many construction Probleme.Der construction the dike prisons and object of public works was never completed.

Many of the original buildings in prison no longer exist. Before the year 1900 were three wood huts used to some of the more trusted prisoners meet.You can see still, the ruins of the hospital block and silent cells which annoying prisoners were isolated.There are remains of a building, light electrical machinery, shoe-Smith, bathrooms and Backes and kitchen housed. aren't washing facilities, a turning point, six water tanks, a shop and a former underground water storage tank more vorhanden.Der uses water storage tank, 35 meter long, 25 M wide and 18 M deep, kept the 37,700 gallons of water.

Both the public works era and enemy alien era cells restored were the North Western Guard's watch tower, making amazing views over the Bay.

A plan designed point, 1861, a breakwater of off laggers to create a port that were too large to cross the mouth Macleay River to build ships.It was planned to prisoners for the construction of the breakwater to use therefore trial Bay jail was specifically founded for the purpose of accommodation of employees and became a public work prison.

Work on the prison began in 1877 and 1886 64 cells were completed occupied as the first prisoners.

The breakwater, the prisoners were to build, was go to the years of construction out 1,500 meters out in the Bucht.In winds damaged the Wellenbrecher.Eine often second piano (South) and a cross between the second piano and the older section of the prison was trial Bay between the years 1898 1899 jail has proposed the breakwater work wanted to continue added.Changes in 1900 have been completed, create a kitchen Backes and pantry.

Apparently the prison was expensive to run and also at that time was your penology rethink ideas and believe this kind of work is a appropriate treatment regime, decided to abandon the project, was 1903.

Only 300 meters point breakwater built by laggers, whose shoaled the Bay and made it very flat for ships.A Kai was then in 1898 in the breakwater of passenger ships be used, the Macleay River's mouth could cross not built.

Nowadays no one is Kai visible, and only a very small section of the breakwater there is a 50 m length.

The last use of the prison was between 1915-1918, when it used as enemy alien internment camp few most of the prisoners at this time were officers from the German Army Reserve.In 1917 there are rumors, that the German designed, and these men to retten.Als 1918 armed merchant Raider of German expected SMS Wolf seen all men from the prison on the outskirts of Sydney to a larger prison were laid.

It was dormant for several years and was totally stripped fixtures in 1922.

This was the last use of the prison and it has been removed and devices sold in 1922.Heute it is open to the public as national parks and Wildlife Service operated a world heritage site of the

Today trial Bay prison is open to the public 7 days a week from 0900-1630 and State conservation area, a world heritage site of the national parks and wildlife offers Service.Es holdings in Arakoon also thousands of visitors each year with facilities for camping, swimming, boating, fishing and picturesque walks.

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