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

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.

The building that currently houses Hudson Valley Newspapers is one of only a few buildings set back from Warren Street. It was originally built as a jail in 1805, and the yard in front was known as Hangman's Square. Only one person was ever executed here. In 1835 it became a city hall and an assembly and dance hall for twenty years. In 1855 it became known as Davis Hall, a theatre. Since 1862, it has been a printing shop and newspaper building.

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. [?]