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Ripley is a town in the Amber Valley borough of Derbyshire, England.
Sydney Road is a major urban arterial in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
HM Prison Fairlea was an Australian female prison located on Yarra Bend Road in the suburb of Fairfield, Victoria, Australia. The first all-female prison in Victoria, it was built on the site of the Yarra Bend Asylum, with remnants of the walls and gates being used in the layout of the prison. In 1982 a deliberately lit fire led to the deaths of three inmates. The rebuilt and expanded prison reopened in 1986. After closing in 1996 due to privatisation of sections of the prison system, Fairlea was demolished and the site converted to parkland.
J Ward originally the Ararat County Gaol, was an Australian prison, of the latter a psychiatric facility to house the criminally insane, located in Ararat, Victoria, Australia.
Father Charles Adolphus O'Hea OSA (1814–1903) was an Irish Australian Catholic Priest. He began his ministry in Ireland before travelling to Melbourne, Australia where he lived until his death. He is best known for establishing a number of churches north of Melbourne and for both baptizing and administering last rites to the bushranger Ned Kelly.
Keith George Faure, from Norlane, Victoria, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters. He is currently serving life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19 years for his role in two murders related to the Melbourne gangland killings. Faure's criminal history includes further convictions for armed robbery and breaking and entering.
Jika Jika may refer to places in Victoria, Australia:
Jeremiah Brandreth was an out-of-work stocking maker who lived in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, who was beheaded for treason after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the Government of Great Britain. He and two others, who were known as the Pentrich martyrs, were the last people to be beheaded by an axe during an execution in Britain.
William J. Oliver, (?1774-1827) also known as ‘Oliver the Spy’, W.J. Richards and W. O. Jones, was a police informer and supposed agent provocateur at a time of social unrest, immediately after the Napoleonic Wars.
SS Lambridge was a 5,119 GRT UK cargo ship that was built in 1917, gave 28 years of service and was scuttled in 1945. She was launched as Glennevis but changed owners and names a number of times, successively becoming African Prince, Pentridge Hill, Botlea, HMS Lambridge and Lambridge. She was scuttled as part of a programme to dispose of UK stocks of chemical weapons.
The Pentrich rising was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, in the United Kingdom. It occurred on the night of 9/10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield; the 'revolution' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.
Claud Farie, sometimes spelled Claude Farie was sheriff and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Adam Ford is a British-born archaeologist who has worked in United Kingdom, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Australia. He was host of the ABC television documentary Who's Been Sleeping in My House?.
Melbourne City Ballet is a ballet company based in Melbourne, Australia. The company was founded in 2013 by current artistic director Michael Pappalardo and has experienced significant growth in recent years. Originally created as a neoclassical/contemporary project based company, Melbourne City Ballet has developed quickly over the past few years to become a full-time operating arts organisation with an increasing focus bring classical ballet works to regional and remote communities across Australia. Melbourne City Ballet is a registered charity with the Australian Charity & Not for Profit Commission under the name MCB Incorporated and is overseen by a board of professionals.
Thomas William Johnson, was convicted of a double murder in Dunolly, Victoria. He confessed to two killings before being executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1939. Johnson was the fourth of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne Gaol in 1929.
George Green, was convicted of a double murder in Glenroy, Australia. He was convicted of murdering two women before being executed at Pentridge Prison, Victoria in 1939. Green was the fifth of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne Gaol in 1929.
