Tourist attraction
Boggo Road Gaol
Former colonial prison and execution site, its hangings once run by disguised civilian hangmen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Boggo Road Gaol in Dutton Park, Brisbane, follows the Queensland hangmen who worked behind disguises during the prison's decades as the colony's execution centre. At its centre is Samuel Hudson, a blacksmith who moonlighted as hangman between nineteen hundred and nineteen oh five, and what two jobs cost an ordinary tradesman in a small city. You will also hear about the man who took over from him, and how far Queensland went to keep a hangman's identity secret. Listen near the old cellblock wall, close to the ground the gallows once stood on.
This audio guide was created using AI.