ENGLISH PROJECT, BILINGUAL CLASS. IESO Tomás Bretón Susana Fraile & Pablo López

1. TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA IN
THE EARLY 1800´S
By Susana Fraile and Pablo López 4ºA

2. PORT JACKSON (AUSTRALIA)
In 1800´s, poor people of England stole some food due to the situation that they had in those times. If there
were plenty of convicts in the jails or the crime was very hard , these persons were sent to other jails, in that
case, to Australia. During the trip, boys and girls were in awful conditions: without bread, water, fruit,etc.
They were overcrowded because the amount of persons in the boat was really amazing. The smell in the boats
was disgusted (it smells like beer or urine). The length of the trip (from England to Australia) was, more or
less, 5 months.
200 YEARS AGO NOWADAYS

3. BOYS AND GIRLS
• Their age was more or less 11-15 years. The girls had to move to other houses to work as a laundry
maid. These children didn´t have enough money to buy for example a bun or a cake. Ann and William
normally visited their aunt´s house to get some apples, sausages, cheese, etc.
• Some of them emigrated to Australia to find a job. In the book, Ann Telford becomes a nurse in a
hospital.
• The most important thing that this teenagers could have was know to write and read.
• In the book, the goal of Ann and William is to find their mother (she is in Australia), that means, she
was another convict too.

4. PUNISHMENTS
• Floggins: the convicts were hit with a whip, they used this
technique as a torture to confess the crimes.
• The treadmill: the convicts had to walk up a revolving set of steps
which powered mills grinding grain into flour.
• Leg-irons: this involved placing shackles around the convict's
ankles so they couldn't move.
• Also convicts could be hanged and move to Australia.

5. TRIALS
• Trials were very quickly around eight and a half
minutes so the juries had heard around 15 and 20
cases per day.

6. DURHAM JAIL
• Prisoners were kept herded into awful cells with no heating, no
bedding and no sanitation. The prisioners were chained and they
had to pay for their food

7. •THE END

8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Trial-procedures.jsp
• https://community.dur.ac.uk/4schools.resources/Crime/prisons.htm
• http://www.convictcreations.com/history/punishhments.html
• Book ¨A convict´s Tale¨ Burlington Books (Chapters 1-6)