Prison Collection (page 5)

Leyhill Prison Carpentry Class
Inmates of Leyhill Prison, Gloucestershire, in a hobby carpentry class. One is making a small rocking horde, another working on model sailing ships. Date: circa 1945

Hill Hall Training Prison, Essex
Inmates in the reading room of Hill Hall Womens Training Prison, Theydon Mount, Essex. Date: circa 1950

Hill Hall Womens Training Prison, Essex
Inmates at work in the kitchen of Hill Hall Womens Training Prison, Theydon Mount, Essex. Date: circa 1950

Wandsworth Prison Laundry
Inmates at work in the laundry at Wandsworth Prison, London. Some are irong and folding large sheets. Date: circa 1945

View inside Penshurst Castle, Tonbridge, Kent, by this time accessible via the new railway from London to Dover. From left to right can be seen the Elizabeth Gallery, Barrack Room, Prison

Castle of the Seven Towers (Yedikule Fortress), Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire

Inside view of the Poultry Compter, 1811, a London prison in Cheapside operated from medieval times to 1815. This particular building was built soon after the great Fire of London, 1666

East entrance to the cell in the Southwest Tower of the Tower of London, 1803. Early Pointed Style. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811

North view of the cell in the Southwest Tower of the Tower of London, 1803. Early Pointed Style. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1811

Public officer of the revolutionary era, Fonctionnaire public, and Temple prison gaoler 1793. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, in Temple prison 1792
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, wife to King Louis XVI. In the costume she wore when confined in the Temple prison, 1792

View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, 1821
View of the town of Hobart, Tasmania, with 2, 700 inhabitants in 400 homes, 1821. Showing the government building, school, church, prison, battery and telegraph signals

Young Offenders Prison, Bedford
Bedford Prison, where an experimental scheme began in 1899 to house young offenders aged from 16 to 21. The scheme led to the creation of the Borstal system in 1908. Date: circa 1900

Henry, Prince of Wales committed to prison
Henry, Prince of Wales (the future King Henry V) committed to prison for striking Judge William Gascoigne in the Court of the Kings Bench - an apocryphal story. early 15th century

Illustration, Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare
Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare. Cast list with decorative border of chains, a sword, a crown and a hooded cloak. Date: 1840

Sir Walter Raleigh in Tower of London
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618), English gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. Raleigh imprisoned in the Tower of London

Laud imprisoned in the tower of London
Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645) imprisoned in the Tower of London, having been found guilty of treason. 1641

The Princes in the Tower - Edward V & Duke of York
The Princes in the Tower - Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the only sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville alive at the time of their fathers death

German Prisoners in Morocco
German Prisoners captured during the First World War, digging trenches in Morocco Date: 1915

Exodus from Whitecross Street debtors prison 1870
Whitecross Street Prison was a debtors prison in Islington, London, capable of holding up to 500 prisoners. At five minute pass twelve on New Years Eve a new act was passed

Annual inspection of the Middlesex Industrial School, established at Feltham to make provision for the care, reformation, and education of juvenile offenders

Prison, Tobe, Japan, 1870s. Date: 1870s

Old wooden Temple Bar in London, built housing a small prison above it. Date: 17th century

Mountjoy Prison 1866
Interior of Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where the fenians are confined. Date: 1866

Gustave Flourens released from prison by revolutionaries
The release of Gustave Florens (1838-1871), the French Revolutionary leader, by some of his followers, Mazas, France, 1871

Convict Ship at Woolwich 1846
Convict Ship, docked at Woolwich in London and capable of holding 600 men. Date: 1846

Onboard the prison ship The Warrior
Interior of the convict ship The Warrior in Woolwich, London. Date: 1846

Holloway prison
Birds-eye view of the new London city prison and House of Correction, Holloway, that opened on 6th of October 1852, with 371 males and 93 female prisoners. Date: 1853

Tower of London 1415
The Tower serving as prison for the duc dOrleans, taken prisoner at Agincourt. Date: 1415

John Howard (1726 - 1790), philanthropist and early English prison reformer

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910

GIRONDINS ARRESTED
Dumouriez and other Girondin deputies are arrested by order of the Assemblee and conveyed to prison, whence few will re-emerge except to go to the guillotine. Date: June 1793

ARISTOCRATS IN PRISON
THE REIGN OF TERROR : Aristocrats and other opponents of the Revolution wait in prison until its their turn to be carted to the guillotine. Date: 1793 - 1794

REIGN OF TERROR VICTIMS
The reign of terror : a prison warder reads out the names of those who are to be guillotined today. Date: 1793 - 1792

NEWGATE PRISON / COURTYARD
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The central courtyard & Mrs Frys Gate. Date: 1900

MARSHALSEA PRISON / 1800
A view of Palace Court, Marshalsea prison, Southwark, London. Date: 1800

MARSHALSEA PRISON / 1803
View of the exterior of the prison before the new buildings were erected. Date: 1803

KINGS BENCH PRISON / 1812
This prison came under that authority of The Marshal of the Kings Bench. It opened in 1370 and closed in 1879, having moved once in 1758. Date: 1812

Fleet Prison - Cruikshank
Fleet Prison was notable as a debtors prison after the 17th century until it was demolished in 1845-46, having been rebuilt 3 times in 1381, 1666 and 1780. Date: 1828

Trageagle Ghost
The ghost of Tregeagle, an evil-doing Cornishman, seeks nightly to escape his prison, Dozmary Pool; but every night he finds the Hounds of Hell awaiting him

PORTSMOUTH PRISONERS
The reception of new prisoners at Portsmouth Prison. Date: 1873

PRISON / MAT-MAKING / 1873
A convict in his cell, making mats. Date: 1873

CHARLES VIII & LOUIS DO CHARLES VIII & LOUIS DO
Young Charles VIII releases from prison Louis dOrleans, one of the rebels opposing the crown. The reconciliation leads to Louis succeeding Charles as Louis XII Date: 1491

PROTESTANT PRISONERS
The Tour de Constance which served as a prison for protestants during the Cevennes Insurrection. Date: 1702

BRIXTON WASH-HOUSE
A scene in the wash-house in Brixton Prison Date: 1860

CONCERT IN BERLIN PRISON
Prisoners listening to a concert in a Berlin prison

BRUSSELS PRISON
Prisoners wearing white hoods sit in cubicles in the chapel of the New Model prison in Brussels Date: 1887

CRIME / JACK SHEPPARD
Jack Sheppard (1702-1724); English thief; committed almost daily robberies in or near London. Captured through Jonathan Wild. Daring escapes from Newgate prison; hanged. Date: 1724

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