the prisoner

Went to Prison today. They let me back out and I wasnt interfered with.
Apparently the oldest prison in Western Australia, built about 1850 ish which is now one of WA most visited tourist attractions, I mean come on we have tenement buildings in Scotland that are older than that, (and smell worse)

Imagine this, your in 1840 and you?ve just been arrested for some trivial misdemeanour or other so you get deported to OZ and sentenced to a jail sentence for when you get there. Well, you get there after spending week or six aboard a stinking wretched slave ship and your trying to see the positive side thinking this wont be too bad its nice and sunny, but you find they haven?t actually got a prison to put you in, so they make you build one first before you can then live in it and finish the rest of your sentence of hard labour. How hacked off would you be ? Minimum service of five years regardless of what you did back home.

The prison was mostly built by drunk scots and irish men, and then doubled in population when they had a local gold rush when even more drunk irish and Scotsmen went scrapping, see reference material attached

However, although I didn?t think that I would enjoy a trip to a prison, its was really interesting and it was used right up to about 91 as a maximum security prison. It could easily have been the prison in the shawshank redemption.

It even had a solitary block and death row, they hanged 43 people, including one Welsh women who put hydrocloric acid on the back of her three childrens neck actually thinking it would cure their dyptheria. Yes love it cured it because they are now dead, you think that she would have stopped trying after the first one. Noose plus trapdoor still available to see. I will stick with the Irish thanks very much.

Spent the rest of the day in Rosy Ogrady (irish pub) at which time Dad managed to successfully insult another drunk Irish Man.

I: Oive got a hangover (5pm) and ti floo
D: Sounds like your typical Irish man then ?.
I: Oim not even goin to answer dat?you?..beep beep beep beep?
D: How come you got away with telling the other boy he was a pikey?..
A: Eh?Because he was actually a pikey?..

Swithered over todays picture, but its the outside dunny of the prison yard. They had no toilets inside the cells and had to use slop buckets.

Weather was nice today, but its now banging down with rain and howling a gail, I feel so at home!