Incarceration at Hay

 The old railway station showed the opulence the sheep industry brought to the area in the early days.

Hay can be a forbidding place.  It is a long way to the next town and the climate can be extreme, particularly in summer.  For this reason it served as a place of incarceration for foreign nationals during World War II.  Some of the old carriages host an exhibition to the Dunera Camp that operated during the war.  Apparently the summers were so bad many inmates had to be moved to more hospitable camps further east.

The old Hay Gaol is now a museum and not a place for a relaxed lifestyle.

This Gaol was used to house the most difficult prisoners and at one time was used as a Girls and Womens' Prison for some of the wilder women from Sydney.  The isolation cell did not offer many home comforts.