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Since the late nineties, local volunteer group the Glenrowan Improvers have been holding funraisers to further their work at the Ned Kelly Siege Site in Glenrowan. The Improvers have been developing the Ned Kelly Siege site for a number of years now with an authentic replica of the 1880 Railway Station almost complete.

“During the Siege more than 500 spectators watched the action taking place from the Station; they sat along the roof and along the platform and we are trying to make the site as it was back in the 1880’s during one of Australia’s most colourful and historic events,” said Terry Kay, project manager with the Improvers.

Glenrowan Station, 1880 Spectators and plainclothed police pose on the railway platform in the late stages of the siege. Fifth from the left is Father Gibney. Note the group at right with their backs to the camera as they crowd around the door of the office where Ned Kelly lay.

The Station also housed a badly bleeding Ned immediately after he was caught and before he was taken to Benalla and on to Melbourne. Terry added, “Proceeds of this novel raffle of Ned Kelly’s suit of armour will help us to develop the site further for visitors and residents of Glenrowan.”

“Along with the replica 1880 Railway Station, we have also produced freely available self-guided walking maps for visitors that outline where events took place during the Siege and generally improved the area of the site.”

“We have erected interpretative boards at significant locations around the 2 hectare site. Some of the locations are where Ned Kelly was shot down (previously an unmarked and generally unknown site), where Ann Jones’ The Glenrowan Inn stood before it was burned down by police incinerating Dan Kelly and Steve Hart and other locations where fascinating events took place,” said Mr Kay.

For further information:
Glenrowan Improvers Inc
Neil Aird
c/o Glenrowan Post Office
Glenrowan
Victoria 3675
Email aird@whitecottageherbs.com.au
Telephone 03 5766 2285

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While news reports abound with stories of Ned Kelly's missing bones not a word is mentioned about his stolen skull? Back in December 1978, Kelly's cranium was lifted from the Old Melbourne Gaol in what appeared to be a university student prank. One of the culprits was rumoured to be an ex-prime minister's son, yet to this day no one knows what happened to it. While a dirt farmer in Western Australia claims he has the skull buried in a tin can in his backyard, evidence has consistently disproved his claim. For while he allegedly carries one of the skull's teeth on a necklace, it is in fact Ernest Knox's skull (hence the EK engraved on the skull). This EK was executed in 1894 for murder, after the shooting death of a jeweller's son during a bungled armed robbery. Either way, they are human remains and the befuddled Western Australian police should have confiscated this skull when they first heard his claim.

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