Will it make ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ look more like ‘Mary Poppins’? Well, it looks like the lads are having another crack at the story of Ned Kelly, but this time focussing their attention on the gang’s final bloodied showdown and destruction in the small town of Glenrowan. I do hope this production goes ahead, as like […]
Brad Webb chats with Matthew Holmes and Aidan Phelan You have the runs on the board thanks to a successful season with The Legend of Ben Hall. Obviously such an undertaking granted you valuable insight in production, distribution, and a number of other factors – so what lessons from that event do you plan to […]
‘GLENROWAN’ PRESS RELEASE Ned Kelly is an Australian icon and to many, a champion of the underdog. But was he really Australia’s Robin Hood, or has a darker truth been masked behind a colourful legend? On the 138th anniversary of Ned Kelly’s capture at Glenrowan, the creative team behind 2016‘s award-winning bushranger epic The Legend […]
Chester Eagle The battle of Glenrowan was all but over, but that wasn’t yet understood. Ned had been captured, brought down by bullets aimed at his legs. He’d been carried to the railway station where he was in the care of Inspector John Sadleir, who had a healthy, if cautious, respect for the outlaw. His […]
Letter to his brother concerning his capture by the Kelly Gang Original held by The Mitchell Library, SydneyDonated by grandson in 1947Note: T. H. Cameron was 16 years old at the time of writing this letter Glenrowan 8 July 1880 My Dear Brother, You requested me in your last letter to give you the full […]
28th of June 1880 Each time I read about the siege at Glenrowan on that fateful morning of the 28th of June 1880, I can’t help but think of what it would have been like to have been one of the hostages. One can only imagine their terror as those police bullets tore through the […]
Famous little block of dirt Well folks, it’s all happening once again in the small town of Glenrowan. The famous little block of dirt where the Ann Jones Inn once stood and where people lost their lives is to be trampled over once more. This time it’s for the sake of film. When I visited […]
Friday 26th June 2009 Commemorating Ned’s Last Stand I was again beside myself when I read that the Siege Dinner in commemoration of Ned’s last stand at Glenrowan had finally returned. I was even more beside myself when I saw that the price of admittance was just a paltry $35, a far, far cry from […]
Digging Up Glenrowan I don’t know about you guys, but I still can’t seem to get my head around all this digging going on at Glenrowan. First it was the archaeological excavation of the battle ground that ran from the railway station to the Glenrowan Inn, and now it’s poor old Mrs. Jones Inn. We […]
