We found this building beside the Seymour Information Centre. This 1853 Gaol was relocated to this site by staff of the Army School of Transport and was officially reopened by the Mayor of Seymour in 1994. Interestingly we were told that it was still being used by the police as a lock up as late as the 1960's. It is all wood, and has a number of small cells within it all facing one front corridor. The timber is so solid, probably Ironbark, that any prisoner would have buckley's or none breaking out... unless a good whittling knife was tossed through one of the barred windows. So in that respect it was obviously not for long term imprisonment.
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