We are standing in front of the gate and bluestone front wall of a nineteenth-century former prison, designed to mimic a mediaeval castle. The gatehouse has a sign above the open gate reading "Penal Establishment Pentridge". The towers on either side of the gatehouse have ten sides, with fake cross-shaped arrow slits. The rightmost tower has a clock above its turret. There are battlements on the top of the wall and gatehouse. The feeling the whole prison fabric gives is grim, austere and cruel. Behind the wall, on the far right of the picture, is a modern apartment tower, of glass and white tile facings.
Fomer Pentridge Prison, Champ Drive, Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Land of the Wurundjeri-willam patriline of the Wurundjerui-Bulluk clan of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung tribe in the Kulin Nation
Before invasion, there were multiple Woiwurrung speaking clans who neighboured each other. Today, those people who descend from the Wurundje
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I went to the site of Pentridge yesterday. It was formerly Melbourne's most notoriously violent prison. It now has the original walls and some buildings but has an apartment tower, a cinema and a coffee shop there I don't know how you could live there without being constantly reminded of horror
Pentridge Prison Complex - Champ Street, Murray Road, and Urquhart Street,Coburg, Moreland City
