9/28/2023 0 Comments Ff factory![]() ![]() Read reminiscences of Cascades Female Factory in the series of articles 'Backward Glances' which appeared in the Launceston Examiner in November 1892. Yard 5 opened in 1853, the year that transportation to Van Diemen's Land ceased. It was the nursery yard and contained the Matron's Cottage in the south-eastern corner. It comprised two rows of separate apartments where convicts were sent for punishment. This is where convicts worked at the wash tub when sentenced to hard labour. Yard 2 opened in 1832 as the washing yard. It contained separate yards for crime, second and assignment class convicts, a nursery yard, a hospital yard, cooking areas, laundry areas, offices, employee accommodation and a chapel. When the Factory ceased operating as a female factory in 1856, there were five yards: Yard 2 (washing yard), Yard 3 (separate apartments), Yard 4(nursery yard) and Yard 5 were added in the intervening years. When the Factory opened in 1828 there was one yard (Yard 1). ![]() Below are drawings of the five yards created by Christopher Downes for Footsteps and Voices. By the end of transportation, the vastly expanded establishment included five high-walled yards. When the Cascades Female Factory opened in 1828 there was one yard. Copies can be purchased from the Female Factory Historic Site shop. Rules and regulations for the management of the Factory were published in 1829.įootsteps and Voices: A historical look into the Cascades Female Factory provides further information on the Cascades Female Factory. The factory's first intake of female prisoners was in December 1828, from the prisoners at Hobart Town Female Factory. It gradually expanded to hold 700 female convicts and their children, though at its peak it was even more overcrowded than usual, holding 1,200 women and children. Governor George Arthur purchased the site at Cascades for the female factory in 1827 from the owner of a failed distillery, TY Lowes. The Factory opened with Yard 1 in 1828, Yard 2 opened in 1832, Yard 3 opened in 1845, Yard 4 opened in 1850, and Yard 5 opened in 1853, the last year of transportation. ![]() There were eventually 5 yards operating at Cascades Female Factory. After it ceased operation as a female factory in 1856, it continued as a gaol under the administration of local authorities from 1856 until 1877. The Cascades Female Factory operated in South Hobart from 1828 to 1856. British Justice System, 18th and 19th Centuries. ![]()
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