Ned Kelly country - Wangaratta is not on the highway, so we turned off the highway, coming into Wangaratta we noticed lovely parks and gardens, drove down the main street looking for somewhere to park and look into the tourist information centre, we found a park a couple of blocks away - just a suggestion to Wangaratta Council please if you want grey nomads or any other traveller with a caravan, we need more parks closer to the cente of town, we were happy to walk, but some may not be able to walk. Still loved the feeling of Wangaratta - people were lovely and helpful especially in the tourist information centre, would be the best we have visited, the presentation - especially of their products of the area.
After speaking with the staff at the information centre we travelled to Glenrowan where this was Ned Kelly's last stand,so to speak. Some history - Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Irish/Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded killer, while others consider him to be a folk hero.
Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he killed three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws.
A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and a helmet, was captured and sent to jail. He was convicted of three counts of wilful murder and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore, literature, art and film.
In August 2011, anthropologists announced that a skeleton found in a mass grave in Pentridge Prison had been confirmed as Kelly's.
We attended a visual/theatre re-enactment of the Kelly gang's last days, it was a very good experience done well. The cost was $25 pensioner, or $27 adult.
After speaking with the staff at the information centre we travelled to Glenrowan where this was Ned Kelly's last stand,so to speak. Some history - Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Irish/Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded killer, while others consider him to be a folk hero.
Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he killed three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang wanted outlaws.
A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and a helmet, was captured and sent to jail. He was convicted of three counts of wilful murder and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore, literature, art and film.
In August 2011, anthropologists announced that a skeleton found in a mass grave in Pentridge Prison had been confirmed as Kelly's.
We attended a visual/theatre re-enactment of the Kelly gang's last days, it was a very good experience done well. The cost was $25 pensioner, or $27 adult.
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