Williamstown

This guide to Williamstown centers on Wednesday the twenty-sixth of March, 1857, at the bluestone quarry near Point Gellibrand, where John Price, Victoria's Inspector-General of prisons and the hated overseer of the convict hulks moored offshore, makes his usual morning rounds questioning convicts about their rations. It traces his brutal record running Norfolk Island and the resentment he carried with him to Williamstown. Walk the waterfront past the yacht masts and picture the quarry pits that once stood where the cafe tables are now.