Former New Plymouth Prison
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Showing posts with label New Plymouth Prison. Show all posts
1 Aug 2017
29 Jul 2017
New Plymouth Prison
Today we went to the New Plymouth Prison. It closed March 15 2013 and is no longer used. This
category 1 historic building is land-banked for Treaty of Waitangi
settlements and is in the care of Land Information New Zealand.
New Plymouth Prison, dating from the 1870s, was the country's oldest operational prison before it was closed. It has special heritage significance as an artefact of the development of New Zealand's penal system.
The structure evolved from an 1850s building, a wooden military hospital built on the former Maori stronghold of Pukaka Pa, now also known as Marsland Hill, in central New Plymouth. Constructed in the late 1850s to serve the adjacent military barracks, the hospital building provided care to Imperial troops injured in the conflicts of the Taranaki Wars of the 1860s. After the last regiments had been withdrawn it was decided to reuse the building to meet a pressing need within the community, as the new district jail.
Here is my sketch:
Today I decided to try and sketch in gray-scale using graphite pencils.
You can just see the top of Mount Taranaki in the background.
Ref: http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/903
New Plymouth Prison, dating from the 1870s, was the country's oldest operational prison before it was closed. It has special heritage significance as an artefact of the development of New Zealand's penal system.
The structure evolved from an 1850s building, a wooden military hospital built on the former Maori stronghold of Pukaka Pa, now also known as Marsland Hill, in central New Plymouth. Constructed in the late 1850s to serve the adjacent military barracks, the hospital building provided care to Imperial troops injured in the conflicts of the Taranaki Wars of the 1860s. After the last regiments had been withdrawn it was decided to reuse the building to meet a pressing need within the community, as the new district jail.
Here is my sketch:
Today I decided to try and sketch in gray-scale using graphite pencils.
You can just see the top of Mount Taranaki in the background.
Ref: http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/903
9 Mar 2013
New Plymouth Prison Open Day.
New Plymouth Prison is closing this month. It will have been in operation for over 140 years, and is one of New Zealand's oldest prisons.
Today they held an open day for the public. There are no longer any prisoners there. Most of them have been shifted to Whanganui Prison. Several of us went to have a look, but none of us did any sketching. On the table in the dome, there were copies of sketches we did last time for the public to take if they wanted.
Here is the sketch I did that was on the table:
It was quite surreal watching people look at them and then pick up your sketch.
Here is a picture I took:
I may try and sketch from it later.
Today they held an open day for the public. There are no longer any prisoners there. Most of them have been shifted to Whanganui Prison. Several of us went to have a look, but none of us did any sketching. On the table in the dome, there were copies of sketches we did last time for the public to take if they wanted.
Here is the sketch I did that was on the table:
It was quite surreal watching people look at them and then pick up your sketch.
Here is a picture I took:
I may try and sketch from it later.
9 Sept 2012
New Plymouth Prison - Detail
When we were sketching the prison,
I was thinking about the oldness of
the building and the modern additions.
6 Sept 2012
5 Sept 2012
1 Sept 2012
New Plymouth Prison
We had a good turn out today to sketch the New Plymouth Prison. It was a beautiful sunny warm spring day and everyone was keen.
This prison, dates from the 1870s, and it is the country's oldest prison still operating. Today it is used as a minimum to high-medium security facility for 112 prisoners, plus offenders on remand. It is due to be decommisioned on the 1st March 2013. It is listed as a Category I historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. It currently has 80 prisoners and that number is gradually being wound down.
It is now deemed an earthquake risk and unsuited to modern standards of justice, its doors will clang shut for the last time when most current prisoners will have finished their terms.
Here is my sketch:
Jackie
This prison, dates from the 1870s, and it is the country's oldest prison still operating. Today it is used as a minimum to high-medium security facility for 112 prisoners, plus offenders on remand. It is due to be decommisioned on the 1st March 2013. It is listed as a Category I historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. It currently has 80 prisoners and that number is gradually being wound down.
It is now deemed an earthquake risk and unsuited to modern standards of justice, its doors will clang shut for the last time when most current prisoners will have finished their terms.
Here is my sketch:
Jackie
New Plymouth Prison
George Wilder escaped from here. New Zealand's oldest prison built 1861 originally as a military hospital within sight of Marslands Hill. Soon to be decommissioned next year.Our friendly Corrections Officer related various stories, including a prisoner who leap over the wire and wall into the darkness, hobbled to a phone to make a call to his mum to pick him up, who promptly dobbed him in.
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