Virtual Discovery #46 - Bell on Signal Hill

A bell on a hill in Thomson Bay establishment filled farm bell purposes for the Prison from 1864 to 1902. It regulated the daily routine of work and meals as well as announcing shipwrecks, fires and other disasters, On Sundays, it announced church services. The bell was installed by Henry Vincent, coincident with the opening of the new Prison. The hill on which the bell was installed, soon came to be known as Bell Hill,but later, after the installation of a large flagpole and heliograph station, acquired its current name, Signal Hill. The bell disappeared at the time of the Prison closure in 1902 and unfortunately, in spite of repeated investigations, the original bell has never been reidentified or rediscovered