1812 Gallery

Bleak House

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote "David Copperfield" etc

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Jeremy Benthams Panopticon

Jeremy Bentham's proposed panopticon workhouse or industry house for up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Bentham's 1812 work Pauper Management Improved, was originally devised for housing prisoners. It comprised a ring doughnut shaped building with a central control post. Date: 1812

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

Wroxeter (Vriconium)

A surviving section of the Roman wall of Wroxeter, the largest Roman city to survive completely without any modern development. Only the Roman Baths are on public display

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