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Hang 'em high | 
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Great (and not so great) escapes | |||
| 42 people were hanged at Boggo Road during 1883-1913. Find out who they were... | Escapes and attempted escapes tell the story of how Boggo Road did (or didn't do) its job... | |||||
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Prison language, slang and flash | 
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(In)famous prisoners | |||
| Murderers, bushrangers, escapologists, and... professional wrestlers. This is the Boggo Road 'rogues gallery'. | ||||||
| Do you know what a 'boob' gun is? How about 'burgoo', 'chocolate frog', 'peter thief' or 'shiv'? Find out here... | ||||||
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'Victims of adverse circumstance' | 
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Days at the Museum | |||
| All about life in the first womens' prison 1903-1921, and the kind of women who were sent there... | How a small group of volunteers kept the Boggo Road Gaol Museum open and single-handedly made it a success... | |||||
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Murder in the bootshop NEW | 
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How black were the 'black holes'? | |||
| An inside take on the brutal murder of officer Bernard Ralph in the Boggo Road bootshops, July 1966... | One of the most infamous and misunderstood aspects of Boggo Road history. What is the truth? | |||||
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Shivs, bongs and boob guns | 
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The Haunting Question | |||
| Our work in documenting and preserving the varied range of legal and illegal objects in the Boggo Road collections. | A long-overdue and honest look at the paranormal industry and the haunted reputation of Boggo Road... | |||||
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Scratch my back | 
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A grave mystery | |||
| Stories abound, but where people really buried in the prison grounds? Find out here... | ||||||
| When barebacked men were flogged by the hangman in prison yards, and some vivid descriptions from the newspapers... | ` | |||||
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Lost in the '80s | 
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World War 2 comes to Boggo Road | |||
| A decade of riots, protests and discontent that spelled the end of the road for the old prison... | The prisons role on the home front during WW2, and why the Americans wanted to reuse the old gallows... | |||||
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Why 'Boggo'? | 
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Division of labour | |||
| How the early prison system used labour to control, exploit, or rehabilitate prisoners... | ||||||
| What are the origins of this unique place name? It may not be the version you've heard... | ||||||
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The early Brisbane prisons | ||||
Before Boggo Road there were prisons on Queen St. and Wickham Terrace. Different times, different prisons, same old problems... |
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Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society (Inc.) |