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Know Your Colonial Gaol History #3: The Gaol on Petrie Terrace (part one)
Petrie Terrace Gaol (S. Woolcock, 1988).Brisbane's Queen Street prison of the 1850swas constantly criticised as it was never really up to the job, so it was no surprise that the first public building...
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Can we run Boggo Road? Yes We Can!
IMPORTANT UPDATE HERECan we run Boggo Road?YES. WE. CAN.Okay, some jolly nice person has been very kindly putting it about that the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society doesn’t have the 'commercial...
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Boggo Road Reopens (well, kind of)
So, the Department of Public Works have decided to openpart part of the Boggo Road Gaol for a four-month 'trial period'. The long term plans are still being put together so the finished product is...
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Confused about the Boggo Road reopening?
Judging by the phone calls and emails I've received, there is a lot of confusion about this Boggo Road opening, so here are some basic facts to hopefully set people straight:IS THIS A FULL...
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Why this temporary Boggo Road reopening is unacceptable to the BRGHS - and...
(The following is based on a recent statement by the BRGHS) Members of the Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society believe that the recent decision by Public Works to reopen part of the Boggo Road Gaol to...
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Gold Coins & Straw Men: Who really runs Australia's heritage prisons?
So I'm watching TV the other night and there's a small businessman on the news telling me that Boggo Road 'can’t be run on volunteerism and gold coin donations' (watch it here). And you know what? I...
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THE TOP 5 'BOGGO BLOG' ARTICLES OF 2012
When the Boggo Blog started back in 2010 I was rather excited when, after a few months of writing, the blog recorded over 300 monthly page views for the first time. Fast-forward to now, and the...
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Censorship on this Blog
A quick bit of housekeeping.I had to reluctantly remove some comments posted to this blog this week. They were actually really good and some of the best I've ever seen here, but the problem was that in...
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The Greatest Last Meal of All Time!
I recently thumbed through an interesting book called Texas Death Row, a compilation of information about the people executed in Texas in the modern era. Each prisoner’s last meal request was listed,...
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The 94 people hanged in Queensland: Where were they from?
The first hanging in Brisbane took place in 1830. The last one in Queensland was in 1913. 93 of these people were men, one was a woman (from Ireland)
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The #1 Reason to Boycott Boggo Road
Last year Public Works spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars preparing Boggo Road for public access. It is, after all, a public asset. Then they handed commercial control of part of the place...
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Chin up! The thoroughly decent way to break a chap's neck
The 'subaural knot' (1880) It’s been a long while since I put a morbid post about the death penalty, so here's the first for 2013.Back in the late 19th century there was serious debate within the...
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The Case of Jack the Rip-off
We all know that under his interim license Jack 'Cameron' Sim of Ghost Tours is not paying anything back to Boggo Road Gaol while he profits from it with expensive tours. Well, it turns out that 'Jack...
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Jack the Rip-off Strikes Again!
After the recent exposé on how the decision to hand interim management of Boggo Road Gaol to an anti-volunteer/anti-competition small businessman resulted in the old gaol becoming southeast...
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BOGGO ROAD FAIL: NO 'FAIR & EQUITABLE' ACCESS - WHAT NEXT?
“A Deed of License has been entered into with Mr Jack Sim to open and operate from the No.2 division Boggo Road Gaol for an initial trial period of four months. The License requires Mr Sim to allow...
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Where in Queensland was the Gallows Tree?
For oak and elm have pleasant leaves That in the spring-time shoot:But grim to see is the gallows-tree, With its adder-bitten root,And, green or dry, a man must die Before it bears its fruit!(Oscar...
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Top 10 Free Online History Resources for Queenslanders
For those of us who used to spend far too much time travelling from part of town to another to crawl through microform records and paperwork to get hold of some historical snippet or other and then all...
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John Andrew Stuart and Jim Finch: Double Trouble
John Andrew Stuart (left) and Jim Finch (right)Tomorrow (8 March) is 40 years to the day since Brisbane’s'Whiskey au Go Go' nightclub was firebombed. Five gallons of petrol were ignited in the foyer of...
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Ghost Hunts, Charlatans, and ‘Psychopathic Liars’
There’s been plenty written in the Boggo Blogabout some of the dodgy goings-on and characters in the ‘paranormal industry’. These articles might seem a bit harsh sometimes, but then I believe that if...
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"They’re too soft on them these days" says ex-officer after Boggo Road riot...
‘BOGGO ROAD RIOTS!’ Three little words that conjure up images of prisoners on roofs, protesters in the street, fire engines, smashed windows, phalanxes of riot squads, and burning cells. Scenes that...
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