On Friday 9th May, the Year 12 Geography students went on an excursion to the Pentridge Precinct, previously Her Majesty Prison Pentridge, a high security prison operating until 1997, now a mixed used precinct including residential towers, heritage buildings and retail district. On the excursion we got to visit the surrounding area, conduct traffic counts on Sydney Road and get a tour from Nation Trust representative of B Division including old cells, exercise yards and hear true, cunning, prisoner escape stories.
We used the data collected from the excursion to complete our fieldwork report, analysing the impacts of the redevelopment of the site on locals, the environment and other Melbournians.
We all enjoyed our trip to Pentridge, with fieldwork sketches being a crowd favourite.
By Sophie E & Thomas F
