1946 Darcy Dugan is Parramatta Gaol’s most notorious escape artists. Born in 1920, he committed numerous armed holdups, a bank robbery and he even robbed a hospital. It was behind bars where he became ...
IT WAS once Australia’s toughest prison, a dumping ground for people who got life sentences for paedophilia, brutal murders and rape. Life was never meant to be easy for the inmates of notorious ...
Adele Chynoweth was previously funded as a project advisor to the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project. Last week, Sydney Festival launched its 2015 program – under Belgium born director ...
A JAIL in north west Sydney has kept some of the hardest criminals behind bars. From escape artists to stand over men, murderers, rapists and an illegal casino operator and even a playwright. Here are ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the 1960s my father Bob travelled 12 kilometres from our fibro house in Western Sydney to get to school, then later 32 kilometres to ...