MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: gaol

Plaque on the side of the Vestry House Museum. The watch house was used for a period as the local lock-up.

One of the holding cells beneath the courtroom, St Albans Museum & Gallery.

Leading up from the holding cells beneath the courtroom, St Albans Museum & Gallery.

One of the old holding cells beneath the courtroom, St Albans Museum & Gallery, now with new fixtures.

Cannon Lane, Hampstead.

Cannon Lane, Hampstead.

The first women's prison in Ireland. During the Great Hunger, women who had been sentenced to transportation (i.e. to be deported to Australia) were held here before boarding the boat. The smallest of crimes could result in a sentence.

Street sign on the wall around Grangegorman Gaol. The large site is now being redeveloped for educational and technological uses.

You really have to use your imagination for this one. This is the site of the metropolitan police office where Oliver Twist was brought before the magistrate Mr Fang. Nancy also came here, at the request of Fagin, tapping the cell doors with her keys to try to locate Oliver. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Dickens Walk in Southwark. www.walksoflondon.co.uk/31/index.shtml Newington Gardens is the site of the former Horsemonger Lane Gaol, which stood here until 1878. Dickens came to the gaol on 13th November 1849, to see the public execution of Frederick and Maria Manning – a husband and wife who had conspired to murder Mrs Manning’s young lover. Dickens had come specifically to watch the behaviour of the crowd, and was disgusted by the ‘wickedness and levity’, ‘the brutal mirth or callousness’ that he witnessed. In a subsequent letter to The Times he concluded, ‘I do not believe that any community can prosper where such a scene of horror and demoralization… is presented at the doors of good citizens…’ See where this picture was taken. [?]