Coldbath Collection

Ground plan of Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields 1862
Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields house of Correction. Date: 1862

Coldbath House. From a view published in 1811. Now demolished, it was a privately run hydropathic establishment opened around 1700

Bakery in the Cold Bath Fields Prison, London, 1860
Bakery in the Cold Bath Fields Prison, London, where bread is made daily for 2, 000 persons without any night work, by the use of Stevens Bread-Making Machine. Date: 1860

Clothes fumigation at Coldbath Fields Prison
Prisoners clothes being fumigated in a heated cabinet at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Gateway of Coldbath Fields Priosn
Gateway of Coldbath Fields House of Correction, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell
Bird s-eye view of the Coldbath Fields Prison at Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Mat-making room at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Tread wheel fan at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Friends visiting prisoners at Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862

Wt Stead / My Father 1885
WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD English journalist in prison at Coldbath-in-the-Fields, 10 November 1885: a result of his human rights campaign on behalf of women and children

Treadmill / Coldbath Field
Prisoners working at the treadmill and others exercising in the vagrants prison, Coldbath Fields. The first treadmill was installed in Brixton Prison in 1817

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