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Long Bay

Bay or cove

Inlet south of Sydney harbour at Malabar.

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Bay or cove

Wreck of the MV Malabar at Long Bay, April 1931

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By

Eleanor Georgina Shaw

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a7855001 / PXA 1642, item 69, 1]

(Mitchell Library)

Colebee

A Cadigal man who became one of the first to interact with the Europeans, Colebee was a leading Aboriginal figure in Sydney Town in the early years of the colony. He was associated with the white-bellied sea eagle.

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.

Prisons to 1920

Even a penal colony needs prisons. As early as 1796 gaols were built to hold criminals who had committed offences in the colony, and to hold the public floggings and executions that were thought to deter such crimes. Through the nineteenth century, attitudes changed, and prisoners were expected to reform and repent, although treatment got little kinder in the new buildings and systems that were devised.

Ocean baths

Rock baths, ocean pools and bogey holes have provided Sydney swimmers with 'wild' swimming that is nevertheless protected, linking the suburban with the sublime all along Sydney's coastline.

Webber, Iris

Iris Webber was a busker and petty criminal active in Sydney from the early 1930s until her death in 1953. She gained notoriety for her fierceness on the streets and in the courtroom, and for her relationships with women.