HM Prison Pentridge
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HM Prison Pentridge, better known as the Pentridge Prison and officially, Her Majesty's Prison Pentridge, is a former prison in Coburg, an inner northern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. T
The gates of the former prison in 2020
The entrance to Pentridge Prison, 1861 (Source: State Library of Victoria)
Pentridge Prison front gate, 2006
HM Prison Pentridge guard tower, 2014
Ned Kelly
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Edward Kelly was an Australian bushranger, gang leader and police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a homemade suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with th
HM Prison Pentridge
…Old Melbourne Gaol between 1929 and 1937, and the burials of nine prisoners executed at Pentridge between 1928 and 1951, including the former grave of Ned Kelly, a Colonial Australian bushranger. In 1999, the Victorian Government sold the site to property developers and, since 2013, guided by various masterplans…
Kelly's boyhood home, built by his father in Beveridge in 1859
According to oral tradition, a young Kelly was awarded this green sash after saving another boy from drowning in a creek. Kelly wore it under his armour during his last stand at Glenrowan. It remains stained with his blood. (Benalla Museum)
Harry Power has been described as Kelly's bushranging "mentor".
Power's capture. Kelly was accused of informing on the bushranger.