a port arthur guide in uniform speaking to a group of visitors in the sandstone ruins of the Convict Church

Guide Talks at Port Arthur

Guide Talks at Port Arthur

Commandant’s House
PenitentiaryJunior Medical Officer’sConvict ChurchSeparate Prison
11.00am10.30am
12.00pm11.45am11.30am
1.30pm1.00pm1.00pm1.30pm1.00pm
2.30pm2.30pm2.00pm1.30pm
3.30pm3.00pm

On This Day: 1839 Thomas Bowling and Henry Barnard were charged with absconding and were punished with 100 lashes each and both were “to be detained for the period of two years in addition to his former sentence to Port Arthur and subject to the severest discipline.”