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The Egg Man wrote:There were executions in Duke St so I reckon there'd have been burials.
urbainespion wrote:.............
With regards to the burials issue, as was custom at the time, people who were executed were seen as being at the behest of the state and were interred within the prison walls in unmarked graves. I imagine they were exhumed and reburied elsewhere prior to closure of the prison.
War Baby wrote:Robert,
Those are terrific photos. I could be wrong but I think that first one is taken near the foot of the steep John Knox Street, just as you start up the hill. ....I was born in 1943 and I remember that the green SMT buses went up John Knox Street, and got to Buchanan Street bus station that way.
....One time, in the early to mid-fifties, I was upstairs on a tram going along Duke Street and was intrigued to see all the tiny cell windows of the prison and it made me wonder like hell about all the prisoners banged up in there.
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