Seeing the magnificent Victorian Italianate Goulburn Courthouse for the first time brought back to my mind some of the grand colonial buildings I have seen in India. I certainly hadn’t anticipated coming across such a structure here in what I might unfairly call sleepy old Goulburn. Continue reading “Goulburn Courthouse – “More for ornament than use””
Thief Taker General – Hunterian Museum
As you enter the Hunterian Museum, in a niche just past the reception desk, you will be confronted with the skeleton of Jonathan Wild one of London’s most notorious criminals.
Wild, hailing from Wolverhampton arrived in London in 1708 and soon (1710) landed himself in jail for a debt offence. While in prison Wild really began his short life of crime and befriended both other petty criminals and his warders who (the warders that is!) awarded him with “the liberty of the gate”, meaning that he was allowed out at night to aid in the arrest of thieves. Off course this award was of mutual benefit to warders and Wild. Continue reading “Thief Taker General – Hunterian Museum”
The Rambling Wombat 