Crimes of Perth — After Dark (Perth CBD)

“Behind the museum stands the Old Perth Gaol — convict-built of limestone, where the colony hanged its condemned in the yard. Find the cell block and the yard where the gallows once stood; your guide marks the spot the body was found.”

⚑ Guide-confirmed at the location.

“Search the old gaol's limestone for the year it was built — the colony's hangmen worked here from the 1850s. Which year?”

“Line your team up in the old gaol yard for a grim colonial 'mugshot' — best convict faces, no smiling.”

“The only town hall in Australia raised by convict hands — and they signed it in code. Look UP at the real tower first, then tap every broad-arrow window (↑) in this photograph. Remember the count — you'll need it.”

“The broad-arrow windows you tapped — their count is the hour the gaol clock stopped when Crook fell. So… what hour?”

“Under the convict-built clock, freeze-frame the very moment it stopped — whole team mid-action, statue-still.”

“Australia's last working Edwardian stage hides a stream beneath its boards — and, they say, a lady in pink above them. Find the King it was named for when it opened in 1904.”

“The witness watched it rise — slide between the 1904 building site and the stage as it stands today.”

“Australia's last Edwardian stage — strike a dramatic curtain-call pose on the steps, whole cast, hands to hearts.”

“Inside this 1899 gold vault sits the heaviest gold coin on Earth — over a tonne. What rush brought all that gold to Perth?”

“Find the year carved over the Mint's grand stone entrance — when the gold rush built it.”

“By the vault doors where a tonne of gold sleeps — your team's best 'we're definitely not robbing this' freeze.”

“The colony's first dead lie here in seven faiths. Find the surveyor who laid out Perth — and this cemetery — in 1829.”

“The colony's first dead lie here in separate grounds — one for each faith. How many faiths share this hill?”

“One grave is wrong — fresh-turned earth where nothing should be buried tonight. Photograph your detectives 'examining' the empty grave.”

“Recreate the c.1863 photo: line your team up under the Arch the way the soldiers stood, fade the old picture, and capture it.”

“The Pensioner Guards — old soldiers who watched the convicts — raised their barracks here in the early 1860s. What year?”

“Unscramble TIRGEHEA — the thing the 1966 fight saved this arch for.”

“Listen — these old bells flew across the world to this tower. Which city did they come from?”

“As the dawn bell tolls, name Crook's killer to your guide — the Resurrection Man, or have you been fooled by a famous face?”

⚑ Guide-confirmed at the location.