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Arthur 'Slim' Halliday: The Houdini of Boggo Road
Arthur 'Slim' Halliday rose to prominence in the 1940s as Boggo Road’s most persistent and infamous escape artist. For sheer...
The Myth of Halliday's Leap
Arthur Ernest 'Slim' Halliday , convicted murderer and infamous Boggo Road escapologist during the 1930s-1960s, is the subjec...
Boggo Road Inmates
Prisoners are at the centre of the entire prison system. Without them, there would be no prisons. Even more than is the case with the...
A Damned Good Flogging
‘BRING BACK FLOGGING!’ We hear it often enough, and there would be plenty of volunteers to carry them out, but it’s been a very long time s...
Prison Slang
boob Prison. Recorded at Boggo Road in 1907. ‘Boob’ is derived from children’s slang of the 19th century, when lice were called ‘boo...
John Andrew Stuart & Jim Finch: Double Trouble
John Andrew Stuart (left) and Jim Finch (right). It has been over 40 years since Brisbane’s 'Whiskey au Go Go' nightclub was f...
Screw!
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) (BRGHS) SCREW. Apart from other well-known meanings, it’s a slang word for ‘prison offic...
Escapes from Boggo Road
100 Not Out: A Century of Escapes: The Statistics The Elusive Pimpernels Arthur 'Slim' Halliday: Houdini of Boggo Road 1973:...
The Day They Smashed a Truck Through the Prison Gates (1991)
Many of the escape attempts from Boggo Road prison were subtle affairs, requiring discrete planning, construction of tools such as ropes, ...
Executed Prisoners, Brisbane 1883-1913
After the new prison and cellblock gallows were constructed at Boggo Road, Brisbane in 1883, that prison hosted almost every hanging in Que...
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