It has remained operating as a licenced hotel since and also incorporates a heritage museum with displaying historical artifacts from the local area.

Since 1992, the prison has operated as a heritage museum, and by 2005 the prison was attracting more than 130,000 visitors every year.

Now, it serves as a heritage museum, exhibiting antique household articles and curios.

Eventually there are plans to develop the site, with combinations of housing, industrial estate, industrial heritage museum or tourism resort being debated with several potential partners.

Not enough money, obviously, and perhaps rather too much of it devoted to showy projects like art galleries, heritage museums and seasonal tourist attractions such as whale-watching.