Other workplaces were simple shops and offices, or lowly stone cottages and huts. A number of convicts were selected for government work or public projects. Without dedicated lodgings, these convicts – known as government men – organised their own accommodation. Many built their own homes, sometimes living with partners and children. Others shared group houses, rented rooms, or slept in the corners of other people's kitchens in exchange for bartered goods or household chores. Government convicts worked under an arrangement known as 'task work'. Once they had completed their set tasks or hours, they were free to spend their time at leisure or hire themselves out to private employers around town. The authorities were uneasy about allowing convicts such independence, but labour was in short supply and they did not have much choice. The system had unexpected advantages: convict enterprise helped to boost the local economy with businesses, trades and goods. Further, convicts' eagerness to earn a livelihood and build new lives and communities gave the colony a surprising character.
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A nearby plaque indicates where the notorious Tyburn Gallows once stood. It is against the law for anyone except a member of the Royal Family or the ceremonial King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery to pass beneath the arch, but this is not enforced. Hyde Park – The Serpentine: The Sepentine lake was created in 1730 by damming the River Westbourne. A beautiful bridge built in 1826 by George Rennie crosses the water and separates the lake into the Long Water to the north and the Serpentine to the south. Paddle boats can be rented from the Serpentine boathouse and the Serpentine solar shuttle boat uses solar power to ferry passengers from the boat house to the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Kensington Gardens. Swimming is allowed at the Lido on the west bank and members of the Serpentine Swimming Club come here for a dip between 6am and 9am every morning, even in the depths of winter. Hyde Park – Hyde Park Corner: At Hyde Park Corner there used to be a tollgate for traffic to and from London.
A new colony In January 1788, a fleet of 11 British tall ships sailed into a sheltered harbour, which the British called Port Jackson. Just over 1000 people stepped ashore at a small bay. More than 700 were convicts; the rest were soldiers and officials, some with their families and servants. The new governor named the bay Sydney Cove, but to the Gadigal clan who lived there it was Warrane. Like all the surrounding country, and everywhere beyond, the Sydney region was already occupied and cultivated, deeply etched with ancestral memory and interconnected by ceremony and song. British authorities had used the system of convict transportation – banishing prisoners to serve their sentences overseas – as a form of punishment since the early 17th century, sending convicts mainly to the colonies in North America. In Britain itself, prisons were generally used as short-term confinement for debtors and those awaiting trial or punishment. With the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1775, a new place of exile was needed.
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