Category Archives: Lock-ups

Some daring escapes from regional lockups in early Queensland. Top: Richmond Police Station, Bottom l-r: Boulia Police Station’s Cells, Surat and Tweed Heads Police Stations. As the population of Queensland spread out across the vast colony, so did the Police Force. The trouble was that the stations and their lockups were erected with Government fundsContinue reading “Nor Iron Bars a Cage.”