Old Dubbo Gaol Upgrade

Launch of New Exhibition and digital upgrade at the Old Dubbo Gaol. Dubbo Daily Liberal 14th December 2023.

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:21 If you're a fan of true crime, this is very mature content,

00:25 which we do have warnings here, but if you're a fan of true crime,

00:28 you'll be a fan of this. It's a mixture of the information, the story,

00:33 but tapping into the incredible records that are available through the State Archives,

00:39 the State Library, Trove, through the National Library,

00:43 getting high-resolution images of these is probably, I'd say,

00:47 over 60 high-resolution images from newspaper articles,

00:50 which you're able to zoom in on, read the entire cases, the trials,

00:57 and the process of going through and researching all these prisoners

01:03 was quite an extensive one because these were complex cases,

01:07 these were difficult cases, these were highly charged.

01:10 There's one here of Archie, the last man who was hanged,

01:13 of our Dubbo Courthouse, which I think is just a really beautiful image.

01:18 Some of streetscapes of Dubbo in the 1880s, some of pardon certificates,

01:23 or pieces of bureaucracy that we're all familiar with, bureaucracy,

01:29 but seeing a death warrant and the bureaucratic forms surrounding

01:36 hanging someone or pardoning someone is really interesting.

01:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]