Article Alert: A Captive Audience (Beechworth Gaol Tours)

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In the July 30, 2011 edition of The Age there is an article entitled "A Captive Audience" in which Sue Wallace details the Beechworth Gaol tours now on offer.

She begins with:

A shiver runs down my back as I stand in the cell where Ellen Kelly and her four-day-old daughter, Alice, were locked up in Beechworth's notorious gaol. The feisty mother of bushranger Ned Kelly was a prisoner in the historic gaol after she and two friends were sentenced for attacking Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick with a "shovel or a skillet" in 1878.

A little further down it continues with:

"I'm sure everyone who has ever driven past Beechworth Gaol's high granite stone walls and stately facade has wondered what it is like inside - and now there is the chance to have a look," Beechworth Gaol tour guide Darren Sutton says...

To read more go to

http://www.theage.com.au/travel/a-captive-audience-20110728-1i1mj.html#ixzz1TWOdM5fQ




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