A NEW EXPERIENCE AWAITS - LIGHTRAIL TO THE PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY
Have you travelled on the new light rail? Follow us on a trip from Parramatta Square which is 71m from Parramatta Railway Station and takes you to within 100m from the Parramatta Female Factory, remember to alight there at Ngara as the light rail continues to Westmead and returns.
Book a guided walking tour in 2025 by emailing [email protected] and catch the Parramatta light rail. Step from 2025 into 1818 where female convicts lived, worked in the factory, endured cruel punishments, had children removed from their care, were assigned to work in the colony and many were selected to be married and released from custody.
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THE CLOCK AND BELL TOWER
The Clock and Bell Tower of Parramatta Female Factory was a gift from King George IV on his Coronation at Westminster Abbey, London, on 19 July 1821 and is one of five clocks received by Australia in 1822 and they were distributed to:
1. Parramatta Female Factory, Parramatta, was installed in the middle of the original building in the 1818-1821 Female Factory Building, designed by Francis Greenway. When the building was demolished in 1885, the clock in the bell tower was reinstalled at the end of the building of the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum Male Ward 1, where it chimes today for each hour of the day and night.
2. St John’s Church, now Cathedral at Parramatta, the clock was installed in the north tower (1821); the church was constructed in 1813, designed by aide-de-camp of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Lieutenant John Cliffe Watts of the 4th Regiment and installed in 1822.
3. St Luke’s Church at Liverpool, designed by Francis Greenway and built by Nathanial Lucas, has a clock in the bell tower and was installed after it opened in 1819. It was marred with some sadness as four workers were hanged accidentally from the partially constructed bell tower after sheltering from a storm, and they were struck by lightning.
4. St Matthew’s Church at Windsor has a clock and bell in an octagonal tower with a belfry that was added to the church in 1817-20 and installed in 1822. The church is the oldest Anglican Church in Australia and was designed by Francis Greenway.
5. St John’s Church, New Town, Tasmania – built in 1835 by civil engineer and architect Dublin-born John Lee Archer and constructed by convicts and had the original clock mechanism and bell installed; however, the bell was decommissioned in 1916 for safety reasons, and commemorative medals were cast from the bronze.
The clocks were made by Thwaites and Reed, Clerkenwell, London, in 1821 and installed in 1827. Thwaites and Reed are still in existence today and started as cloc
