Historical Fremantle Prison – Limited Edition Print on Canvas by Christine LeFaucheur
Limited Edition Print on Canvas, unframed.
Approx. 34.5cm x 27cm x 2cm.
Built as convict barracks in the 19th Century. and remained in continual use till 1991. The Prison was a place of hangings, floggings, dramatic convict escapes and prisoner riots. Inmates included imperial convicts, colonial prisoners, enemy aliens, prisoners of war and maximum-security detainees. The first convict transport sailed into Fremantle Harbour in 1850. The Convict Establishment, as the prison was first known, was built by convict labour between 1852 and 1859 using limestone quarried on the site. The first prisoners moved into the main cell block in 1855.
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