Now Hyde Park (Hyde Park), is a great place to enjoy your leisure time.
Often you can see office workers sitting in the park, sitting in the sun to eat lunch, spend their lunch time rare leisurely;
You can often see friends and families picnicking here, adults talking casually and children playing happily in the park.
But a hundred years ago, at the mention of Hyde Park, all Sydney people frowned and their scalp was numb.
Because, at that time, Hyde Park, really a place to avoid.
The sojourn of the heinous exiles.
In the 1920s and 1950s, Hyde barracks held the most ferocious exiles. The exiles were deported by the British government and crossed the ocean to Sydney.
Some of the criminals, already notorious in Britain before they were exiled to the new state, brazenly ignored the government and the law.
Axe maniac, John Knatchbull.
Born in Britain, John used to be a member of the British Navy, but the hardships of life put him on the path of crime.
Using his military status, he secretly sold weapon and weapons to make money. However, it was revealed that John was convicted by the British government and sent to Sydney for 14 years.
The cunning John falsified the trial book, so he only needed seven years in exile on Nortfolk Island. Living on Nortfolk Island, he is still one of the most restless.
While serving his sentence, he was involved in the prisoners' riots, openly antagonizing government and planning to escape from exile.
His plan failed, and not only did John, who was arrested by the police, not only didn't escape, but also the forgery of his trial book was discovered. In 1839, John was sent back to Sydney, where he went to the Hyde Park barracks and lived there.
In January 1844, John robbed a shop for money. Shop owner Ellen tried to stop, John went down an axe, cut on Ellen's head, when the flesh and blood, Ellen was killed on the spot.
Then, John was arrest, the police, and he was so eloquent that he couldn't beat the evidence of murder. A month later, John was hanged to death.
(executioner'no nose 'Bob' used to work in prison)
Prisoner writer James Hardy Vaus
Now, someone will still remember this criminal named James, who is the editor of Australia's first English dictionary.
James, the most famous prisoner ever held in Hyde Barracks, was a household name in Britain before he arrived in Sydney in 1800.
He made clothes from tailors, but never paid; secretly moved out of the house in the middle of the night to avoid debt and rent. In April 1800, he was finally captured by police and exiled to Sydney.
After arriving in Sydney, James, was one of the most educated men in the prison, so he went to work in the Sydney colonial secretary's office.
Cheater-nature James falsified the governor's signature and put orders for local grain in his pocket.
Although discovered afterwards, James, who was appointed clerk to the Parramatta Magistrate, once again defrauded the trust with his superb acting skills and vows.
In 1807, he served his sentence and returned to England on board. James returned to England like a fish back to the sea. He disguised as a gentleman and began to cheat around again.
This time, he came up with the idea of jewelry. Countless jewelry stores in Britain have been ransacked by James, and quietly looted. He did not show himself until November 1808.
In December 1810, he was again exiled to Sydney, and this time he was held in Hyde barracks. James had to return to his secretary's office, writing a book in a dignified manner and planning to escape.
In 1814, he was caught halfway through the escape and was whipped, but he did not give up. Finally, in April 1829, he managed to escape and disappeared without a trace. No one knew about James's subsequent life, not even when he died.
However, James left two books to Sydney: a memoir of James Vasus, (Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux), which records his legendary life and is Australia's first complete autobiography.
The other,'A Vocabulary of the Flash Language',', published in 1819, is known as Australia's first English dictionary.
Murderers, lots of people in Hyde park.
This most notorious place of exile ties Hyde Park to violent criminals.
Around 1902, many unscrupulous people thought Hyde Park was an ideal place to commit crimes.
So, during that time, Hyde Park became the most feared place for everyone. Many criminals choose to dump their bodies here, and countless bodies have been removed from Hyde Park.
The news of bodies found in Hyde Park is often seen: women in men's clothes, baby bodies abandoned near statues, people killed by knives in quarrels, and dead bodies shot dead.
These terrible dead people cast deep darkness on Hyde Park. The vast majority of Sydney dared not walk near Hyde Park, where many passers-by were deterred even during the day.
Because, even during the day, there are often drunken drunkards wandering around with bottles, and they yell. No one knows what dangerous things they will do next second.
Government also had a headache over Hyde Park and had issued a decree banning the sale of drinks near the park, but the rules didn't work at all, and there would still be countless alcoholics and criminals gathered here, and the murder case was still a frequent occurrence.
The smell of blood is full of blood, and the underground sanctuary is dark and filthy
Time came to Hyde Park in the 1940s, one of the heaviest places in Sydney during World War II.
In that era of war, Sydney Port was once a front battlefield against Japanese aggression. The Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park was once a treatment center for disabled soldiers.
Many of the soldiers sent to the front, in fact, were children. They lied about their age and were recruited into the army. Few of these inexperienced recruits were able to come back alive.
The disabled soldiers brought back from the front line had long been tortured out of shape.
Some people gurgled blood out of their heads; others had a hole in their stomachs and their bowels were all exposed outside; others disappeared directly from one leg and were unable to stand up at all.
Some of the wounded died shortly after they were taken back to Hyde Park.
The blood of the wounded soldiers splashed down the damaged area and stained the mud all the way from the military car to the operating room.
Wounded soldiers, in a makeshift operating room at Hyde Park, were treated and sewn up; those who were badly injured had to be amputated to save their lives.
So the air in Hyde Park was full of blood, smelling the acid of the stomach. The most unbearable thing is the smell of ground bones during amputation. The creepy smell makes the scalp numb.
It wasn't just a treatment center, it was once a shelter for ordinary people nearby to avoid air strikes.
The sanctuary is underground, where the underground railway was supposed to be built. However, the war disrupted all construction plans, and it was transformed into a refuge from Japanese air strikes.
Every time the alarm goes off, sanctuary is the hope of all civilians. Everyone who hid here shivered with fear.
It's become a nightmare memory for millions of people.
The darkness of the underground sanctuary adds to the fear of war-torn people. Hiding here, unable to sleep, damp brought cold deep into the bone marrow. Listening to the roar of a plane hovering over the sky, my heart was hanging over my throat.
All of a sudden, a missile exploded overhead, shaking the sanctuary and dropping dust from its head. If the shelter collapsed, everyone would be buried in it.
Countless people crowded inside to take refuge, breathing moldy air. There is no suitable place to solve all the physiological problems. Coupled with the lack of ventilation underground, Hyde Park's underground shelter was once the dirtiest place in Sydney.
So, nobody wants to go to Hyde Park, but they have to go to live. Struggling with such pain and entanglement, Hyde Park can only remind Sydney of air strikes, filth, death and infinite fear.
As time went by, the history of crime was erased by the story of the war; then Hyde Park became the place where homeless people lived, and their lives erased the darkness of the war.
Hyde Park in the 21st century, beautiful and quiet, is a good place to hold all kinds of activities. Exiles, murder and the war have long been away from us, and those dangers no longer exist.
Countless old people like to sit here quietly, remembering the past.
That's their past, that's Hyde Park's past.
