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	Darlinghurst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gaol was ready for occupation in a year later, with the first prisoners occupying the gaol on 7 June 1841 (Faro, 2000).
		Darlinghurst is well-served by public transport, with many bus routes from the Eastern Suburbs converging on Oxford Street prior to entering the central business district.
		The Darlinghurst Public School is in Womerah St, and is actually in the suburb of Potts Point.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darlinghurst (1094 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Darlinghurst Gaol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darlinghurst Gaol was an Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia.
		The gaol was ready for occupation in a year later, with the first prisoners occupying the gaol on 7 June 1841 (Faro, 2000).
		Darlinghurst Gaol then remained the main Sydney penitentiary up until 1914, when it's unwilling inmates were transferred to the new "model prison" at Long Bay.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Darlinghurst-Gaol (1210 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
		Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the City of Sydney.
		Darlinghurst Gaol, the large sandstone penal complex in the middle of Darlinghurst was built between 1836 and 1840.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Darlinghurst,_New_South_Wales (1488 words)

	Darlinghurst - Definition, explanation
		Darlinghurst has two of Sydney's museums: the Australian Museum (a natural history museum) and the Sydney Jewish Museum.
		It is adjacent to the also historic Darlinghurst Gaol, which is now the East Sydney campus of the Sydney Institute of Technology.
		Darlinghurst is well-served by public transport, with many bus routes from the Eastern Suburbs converging on Oxford Street prior to entering the central business district.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/da/darlinghurst.php (1098 words)

	Sydney/Darlinghurst - Wikitravel
		In local and travellers' parlance, Darlinghurst is understood to include large parts of east Sydney (to the north) and Surry Hills (to the south) — it is also unclear exactly where Paddington starts, as an extension of Darlinghurst's outlook and lifestyle along Oxford Street.
		Darlinghurst is for straights as well, of course: the district is home to a large number of great restaurants, bars and stylish shops....
		The Darlinghurst end of Oxford Street is one of Sydney's main bus arteries serving the Eastern Suburbs.
	www.wikitravel.org /en/Sydney/Darlinghurst (869 words)

	Darlinghurst Gaol
		Henry Lawson also did time at Darlinghurst, for drunkenness and non payment of alimony, and recorded his experience in the haunting poem "One Hundred and Three" - his prison number- which was published in 1908.
		The necessity of walled courtyards (to segregate prisoners and to prevent mass rushes at the gates) caused a lack of air circulation, while there was a reluctance to install underground pipes for suitable waste disposal, since the could provide potential escape routes.
		There was constant criticism of conditions in the gaol in the late 19th century.
	www.policensw.com /info/history/darlgaol.html (839 words)

	Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darlinghurst is the inner-city mecca for hip young people wanting to be close to the action and the cafe lattes.
		Darlinghurst encompasses the vibrant "Little Italy" of Stanley St in East Sydney and is wedged between Oxford and William Sts.
		Facing Taylor Square is Darlinghurst Courthouse from 1842 and behind it is the Old Darlinghurst Gaol, where author Henry Lawson was incarcerated several times for debt.
	www.hasyfa.de /darlinghurst.htm (580 words)

	Darlinghurst Tourist Attraction in Sydney, Australia
		Darlinghurst is perhaps one of Sydney's most interesting suburbs.
		The town took a nose dive in 1841, when the Darlinghurst Gaol was built along the corner of Burton and Forbes Street.
		The image of Darlinghurst as the place to store away criminals and murderers stayed even after the goal was closed in 1914.
	www.findcity.com /locations/australia/sydney/darlinghurst.html (317 words)

	sydney.citysearch.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darlinghurst is a small, central Sydney quarter, extending between Oxford and William Streets and loosely bordered by East Sydney and Taylor Square.
		Darlinghurst is a suburb that attracts creative types: for evidence, take a stroll through the National Art School (a former colonial gaol and favourite hanging spot for that bloodthirsty regime).
		Despite their recent gentrification, the back streets of Darlinghurst remain the haunt of some dubious characters, however, and require street savvy and a modicum of caution at night.
	sydney.citysearch.com.au /profile?fid=32&id=20933320&p=1 (489 words)

	DCS - The First 200 Years
		The first was a parliamentary committee of inquiry in 1849 into the administration of Darlinghurst gaol.
		The two Berrima gaol practices mainly complained about for their cruelty were spreadeagling and the gag.
		However, two major riots at Bathurst gaol, in October 1970 and February 1974, signalled that there were serious deficiencies in the prison system.
	www.csi.nsw.gov.au /about/history.asp (2182 words)

	Sydney budget accommodation : Some local info on Darlinghurst : ShortStays.net
		Like so many places in Sydney, Darlinghurst was named after Ralph Darling who was Governor of NSW between 1825 and 1831.
		In the early days, however, Darlinghurst was best known for its gaol.
		Nestled between William and Oxford Streets, East Sydney is home to the Australian Museum, dating from 1849, and the restaurants of Stanley Street, known as the Sydney's 'Little Italy'.
	www.shortstays.net /budget-accommodation-suburbs/shortstays-darlinghurst.htm (434 words)

	sydneyanglicans.net - Serving the Cross - St John's Darlinghurst
		St Johnand#8217;s Darlinghurst began in 1856 as a church of wealthy and influential people who had erected fine houses on the side of the Woolloomooloo valley from the city.
		It was not a monochrome parish; there were poorer inhabitants to the south and Darlinghurst Gaol loomed on the outskirts.
		Having discussed smoothly the early story of Darlinghurst, Paul Egan, an experienced historian and a local parishioner of forty and more years, proceeds to describe the challenge and the responses of four successive rectors.
	www.sydneyanglicans.net /culture/reading/332a (378 words)

	south west rocks report 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The view from Trial Bay Gaol across Trial Bay to South West Rocks - roughly, the course of the swim.
		She must have finished with a terrible neck, swimming "heads-up" all the 2.7 km from the Gaol to South West Rocks.
		Like something from the Bronte sisters, Smokey Cape Lighthouse shortly after darkness has fallen, the light starting to blaze away to peturbed seafarers, the B and B-ers snugly tucked up in their doona-laden beds as the storm closes in.
	www.oceanswims.com /nsw/swrocksrep04.html (1316 words)

	Frank Pearson - Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While in Darlinghurst Gaol, Pearson was visited by Sister Gertrude Davis of the Sisters of Charity.
		The Sisters of Charity visited prisoners at the Sydney Gaol in the Rocks and, from its establishment in 1841, Darlinghurst Gaol.
		On his release from Darlinghurst, Pearson presented Sister Gertrude with a book of drawings and paintings he had compiled while he was imprisoned.
	www.nma.gov.au /exhibitions/travelling/outlawed/explore_the_outlaws/frank_pearson/topics (126 words)

	Gaol
		The woman, Louisa Collins, is said to have poisoned both her husbands with arsenic.
		Finally Keck installed two prostitutes in the courthouse next door, using lawyers' chambers that were empty at night, and allowing prisoners access to the court through the underground passage.
		eck was sacked in 1849 and left the gaol.
	www.darlinghurst.biz /history/Gaol.htm (965 words)

	East Sydney & Darlinghurst - City of Sydney
		Named after NSW Governor Ralph Darling, cosmopolitan Darlinghurst, or ‘Darlo’, is the heart of Sydney’s gay scene and the home of the Mardi Gras.
		In the early days, however, Darlinghurst was more famous for its 1841 gaol, now the National Art School, and the Darlinghurst Court House, built in 1835.
		Oxford Street is known for its low-priced ethnic restaurants, including Thai, Indian and Spanish, or head to nearby Stanley and Crown Streets for a great selection of Italian cafes and restaurants, from basic to upmarket.
	www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au /AboutSydney/CityLocalities/EastSydneyandDarlinghurst.asp (526 words)

	Corrective Services
		Under section 3 of the Act, any public gaol could be gazetted as a "lock hospital", in which prisoners certified as suffering from, a contagious disease (often venereal disease) could be detained.
		A section of Darlinghurst Gaol appears to have served this purpose prior to 25 August 1909, when the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay was opened.
		The second volume was later used as a record of staff at the State Penitentiary, Long Bay, following the closure of Darlinghurst Gaol in July 1914.
	www.records.nsw.gov.au /cguide/c2/corser15.htm (620 words)

	CrossLines Kings Cross literary magazine
		They say gaols are always on a hill so that the executions by hanging can be visible.
		One thing that does make me glad to be on this side of the gaol gate was the stares of the people in the streets as we walked all the way from George Street North up to the hill on Darlinghurst.
		But what we didn't need to hear, but all of us were forced to see, were the first executions at the new Gaol, carried out on 20 October, at the entrance gates, in full view of the rest of the township.
	www.projectroom.com /joystick/cross2000/issue2/darlgoal.htm (1277 words)

	R v Stack and Hand, 1824
		In the second half of 1829, 164 debtors were received at the Sydney Gaol: Darlinghurst Gaol Debtors Book (which also covers the gaols before Darlinghurst was built, the book running from June 1829 until 1900), Archives Office of New South Wales, 4/6446-4/6647.
		As in the general purpose gaols in London, debtors in the Sydney gaol usually had their own apartments separate from criminals: Sydney Gazette, 7 May 1827.
		One side emphasised the horrors of imprisoning unfortunate debtors, while the other assumed that those in gaol were generally dishonest rather than unfortunate.
	www.law.mq.edu.au /scnsw/Cases1829-30/html/in_re_clegg__1829.html (1200 words)

	Australia's first exclusive suburb re-visited at State Library - Media releases 2002
		Villas of Darlinghurst showcases the 17 lavish Georgian-style homes built in the 1830s — five of which still remain — under the watchful eye of the then Governor of NSW, Ralph Darling.
		Residents were often fearful of confrontations with convicts, the local Indigenous people and escapees from Darlinghurst Gaol.
		Villas of Darlinghurst is free at the State Library of NSW Galleries from 28 January to 23 June 2002.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /media/2002/suburb.cfm (455 words)

	Vacation Australia
		Nearby, on Oxford Street, the imposing Greek revival-style Darlinghurst Court House, built in 1835, is still used for criminal and other cases by the NSW Supreme Court.
		Victoria street in Darlinghurst is one of Sydney’s most popular café strips and the location for many medical establishments, including St Vincent’s public and private hospitals.
		There are other pubs on William Street, Darlinghurst Road and Victoria Street, and for those who like theatre visit the East Village Hotel or King Cross’s Stable Theatre, an excellent venue for intimate contemporary performances.
	www.vacationaustralia.com.au /Australian_Information/Sydney/Sydney_-_Darlinghurst.html (353 words)

	Untitled Document
		Dubbed 'Woolloomoolethal and Woolloomoolewd' by A.G. Stephens in the 1905 Bulletin, The Loo was portrayed as 'a decrepit, run down and vandalised slum' by the 1986 Sydney Morning Herald.
		Darlinghurst too, fllisted as 'Razorhurst, Gunhurst, Bottlehurst and Dopehurst" by The Truth in 1923, was termed 'a cesspit, a vice of crime, a Sodom worthy of destruction," in the 1990 video 'In the Shadow of a Gaol'.
		Squint into the yellow dimness at the veritable sexscape of young hustlers lining the sheer, fortress-like fortification of the old Darlinghurst Gaol, commonly known as The Wall.
	www.firelight.com.au /painting/settingthescene.htm (654 words)

	Ned Kelly World - Australia's Famous Bushrangers
		When Curran assaulted and raped the wife of a farmer whose place they had stuck up, "Jackey Jackey" threatened to shoot him for this, then took his horse, rifle and ammunition, and abandoned him for good.
		By the time he reached his twentieth birthday, "Jackey Jackey" was an inmate of Darlinghurst Gaol.
		He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and from Darlinghurst Gaol transferred to Cockatoo Island.
	www.nedkellysworld.com.au /bushrangers/westwood_w.htm (518 words)

	Art teacher draws a line at poor skills - National - www.smh.com.au
		At the beautiful old sandstone edifice that is the heritage-listed Old Darlinghurst Gaol, Bernard Ollis is railing against the dead hand of art theory.
		Aspiring potters who cannot fire a kiln, painters who do not understand the interplay of colour, sculptors who struggle with form and line - these, he says, are the kind of graduates emerging more and more often from art schools.
		Mr Ollis is the head of the National Art School, in Darlinghurst, the country's oldest visual arts institute.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/11/1086749898516.html?from=moreStories (551 words)

	About Us
		Darlinghurst Gaol looms bleak and grey, nearby terrace houses are paint-peeling and poor.
		As a result of these discussions the first Convention organised by the Religious Booksellers Group was held in 1974 at the Maccabean Hall, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
		To follow is an overview of the events and people who have played a major role in the development of the Christian bookselling industry in Australia.
	www.cbaa.com.au /aboutus.html (497 words)

	'Life' in Darlo has whole new meaning - OpinionElizabethFarrelly - www.smh.com.au
		The ghosts of Darlinghurst Gaol may have found a liberator, writes Elizabeth Farrelly.
		Commissioned by Macquarie from Greenway in 1820, the new Darlinghurst Gaol fell foul of Commissioner Bigge who, trusting ex-convict Greenway even less than he did the governor, effectively erased both.
		Where Bentham arranged his cells annularly around a central tower, on the basis that the permanent possibility of unseen surveillance would keep convicts honest, the Darlinghurst version radiates long cell-blocks from a detached central tower, affording external surveillance only.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/07/05/1089000082850.html?from=storyrhs (1272 words)

	Forebears of November 2001
		Obertheur received 10 yrs on the road, Jacob Pietre 3 years hard labour at Darlinghurst Gaol, and his brother William 5 years on the road.
		Bailey was sentenced to 10 years on the road, despite the fact that he pleaded clemency on account of his wife and 6 children.
		Bailey's sentence was cut short by his death on the 22nd June, 1870, at the Parramatta Gaol, from bronchitis and heart failure.
	www.satcom.net.au /mdfhs/fbears1/page7.html (590 words)

	Luca Antara: Another Darlinghurst Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I was walking that road which runs along the long west wall of the old Darlinghurst gaol, going towards Oxford Street.
		It was a fine afternoon, blue sky and the sandstone of the prison walls drinking the sun, when I entered one of those still and empty moments you get sometimes even in big cities.
		I kept on walking, no longer afraid, past the gates of that gaol, now an art school, and on into the 1990s.
	lucaantara.blogspot.com /2004/07/another-darlinghurst-memory.html (272 words)

	Darlinghurst Gaol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darlinghurst Gaol was an Australian prison located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
		Henry Lawson described the gaol as Starvinghurst Gaol due to meagre rations given to the inmates.
		Louisa Collins, last woman to hang in NSW.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Darlinghurst-Gaol.htm (138 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		He was sued for debt and incarcerated in the debtors' prison, Darlinghurst gaol, from 17 to 19 January 1860.
		Hayes was arrested by Spanish officials at Guam in 1875, and convicted of aiding the escape of political prisoners.
		He was imprisoned in Manila gaol, where he was said to have been baptised into the Catholic faith.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1H13&QuickSearch=true (847 words)

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