Abandoned Shit Weekly Contest - 'Corridors!' - "If these walls talked"

Here's my entry into this weeks Abandoned Shit Weekly Corridors Contest, run by @customnature.

This a photo of the original corridor from inside the Old Melbourne Gaol in Australia. It holds a lot history with the first cell block opening in 1845. Through the gold rush years starting from 1851, the goal soon became overcrowded, it wasn't until several years later that the construction of a 2nd cell block started. It was complete in 1859 and it became the cell block for the women. Before that men, woman and children were all housed together.

The most famous story to come out of the gaol is this is the place where the legendary bush ranger Ned Kelly was hanged back in 1880. He was the 101st person hanged at the gaol. The gaol closed in 1924 but was not decommissioned until 1929. Remains of the executed prisoners were dug up and removed from the cemetery in the exercise yard, through this time members of the public rushed into the graves and souvenired bones they believed belong to Ned Kelly. A skull was removed from the same coffin by a contractor. The bodies were relocated to a mass grave site at the Pentridge Prison where they remained untouched until 2008 when an investigation was opened into the whereabouts of Ned Kelly’s remains. His remains were identified a year later and eventually returned to his family but the location of his skull remains a mystery.

In 1942 the gaol reopened as a detention barracks for Australian soldiers. In 1972 The National Trust took control of the property and opened it as museum where you can still take a tour today and learn the history of this fascinating building. If these walls could talk, I reckon there would be a few tales to tell!