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    HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison that was established in 1851 in Coburg, Victoria. The first prisoners arrived in 1851. The prison closed...
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    Pentridge is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county...
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  • Pentridge is the name of a village in Dorset, England. It may also refer to: HM Prison Pentridge, in Victoria, Australia Coburg, Victoria, originally named...
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  • is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years. Roberts...
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  • assault, arson, impersonating a police officer and kidnapping. While in Pentridge Prison's H division in the late 1970s, Read launched a prison war. "The...
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  • owners and names a number of times, successively becoming African Prince, Pentridge Hill, Botlea, HMS Lambridge and Lambridge. She was scuttled as part of...
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  • which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid...
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    Brunswick and Coburg, where the quarry used to source the stone for Pentridge Prison is now Coburg Lake. Bluestone was also sourced in many other regions...
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    southerly cursus (the Gussage Cursus) pre-dating the northerly one (the Pentridge Cursus). Very little remains above ground of the Dorset Cursus, which...
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  • and 1830–32. (Note that Thompson refers to the village throughout as 'Pentridge', not the modern spelling.) Cooper, B (1983) Transformation of a Valley:...
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