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Coburg
is one of Melbourne’s older suburbs, and many of its historical
sites such as the location of the city’s last working smithy and the
spot on which the first pub, the Golden Fleece Hotel, stood are
marked with bronze plaques. Coburg, of course, hosted the nation’s
most infamous jail, Pentridge Prison, for almost 150 years.
Many
of Australia’s most notorious and controversial murderers died at
the end of a rope on the Pentridge gallows. Those executed at
Pentridge include Ronald Ryan, the last Australian to be put to
death by the state in 1967. Although there was speculation that the
shot which killed the man whom Ryan was found guilty of murdering
had been fired by a warder, the Victorian Premier Sir Henry Bolte
efused to respond to the public clamour for a reprieve and insisted
the execution be carried out.
Pentridge Prison, so long a forbidding landmark in the suburb of
Coburg, no longer hosts reluctant guests of the State, but its dark
secrets will linger on in an interpretive museum which will be part
of a new development taking shape within the old prison complex.
Complete with its 2000 vacuum tubes, 10,000 resistors and condensers
and kilometres of wiring packed into a cabinet the size of a small
apartment, the first computer built in Australia now rests in
retirement in the Museum of Victoria's overflow warehouse at Coburg.
It was
commissioned by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation and was put to work in the CSIRO's Sydney offices in
1949. Seven years later it was moved to the University of Melbourne
where it remained until pensioned off in 1964.
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