I hadn’t seen Gert for years and years- since Greymouth in New Zealand. So it was surprising when i noticed that Gert was travelling around the same wine region as me 🙂 I made contact to see if he wanted to catch up -so we made plans to do the Beechworth Goal tour.
The goal is famous as it housed Ned Kelly a few times and executed a few prisoners too – by hanging.
Some of the earlier prisoners were there for legitimately bad crimes but some are really questionable.
The goal was operational all the way from 1864 – 2004. The need for a goal arose after the population in the area exploded due to the gold rush…
