In 2007, my employers, General Electric Aviation Systems sent me to present a paper at the Health and Usage Monitoring conference, part of the Melbourne Air Show. We had the conference closing dinner at one of the most atmospheric, not to say spooky, places I've ever eaten, the old Melbourne Gaol. Above is our table set out for us on the ground floor. The cells were all off walkways on 3 or 4 floors above us, from where the photo is taken. Below are a cell and the execution gallery......
Like the most famous criminal in Australian History, Ned Kelly, the Man in the Iron Mask, who met his maker here on 1 November 1880.
Dinner by candlelight never had such a frisson!
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