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Darlinghurst Gaol 1891

Darlinghurst Gaol 1891

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Henry Louis Bertrand

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State Library of New South Wales

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Bertrand, Henry Louis

State Library of New South Wales

Darlinghurst Gaol

Planned from the 1820s, Darlinghurst Gaol was built in stages to designs that shifted with penal theories and government budgets. From 1841 prisoners were kept there, in increasingly overcrowded and unpleasant conditions. After Long Bay prison was opened in 1914 the buildings were used for a range of other purposes.

Darlinghurst

Used by its traditional owners, the Gadigal people, well into the 1840s, Darlinghurst was a quarry and windmill site before it became popular for the fine villas of the colony's well-to-do, in the 1830s. Subsequent booms and busts raised and lowered the suburb's fortunes, creating the mix of poor and posh, criminal and respectable that have made Darlinghurst one of Sydney's most interesting localities.

Henry Louis Bertrand

Henry Louis Bertrand, the mad dentist of Wynyard Square, was the centre of a salacious love triangle and murder trial in Sydney in 1865.

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Darlinghurst Gaol

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Sydney's main gaol from its opening in 1841, later used as an internment camp, technical college and art school.