Anne Langley
Anne Langley
Warwickshire County Record Office reference PH143/1042.
A previous article has described the former Warwick Prison on Cape Road, with a photograph of the Governor’s House that still survives. A little further down Cape Road, on the left just before the canal bridge, is a building that resembles the Governor’s House: it is made of blue engineering bricks and has fancy surrounds to the windows.
Does anyone know whether this building was also part of the old prison?
And could it be the building just outside the main prison wall at the top left of the third photo above (of the demolition of the prison in 1934)?
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It is indeed part of the prison, it’s the former dairy.
What an interesting web-site telling us lots more about Warwick Prison (and other historic buildings) – many thanks for giving us the link to it.
I own 181 Cape Road. My limited research suggests it was the former coach house to Warwick, but outside the prison walls. After the demolition of the main prison it was then used as a dairy, which many people remember.
That is why people often refer to it wrongly as the prison dairy.
There is a pamphlet, available to order and read at Warwick Library, which describes a visit to the prison. It describes prisoners arriving by train in Birmingham and then being brought by horse drawn Black Maria to the coach house and off loaded there before entering the prison. We have a prison window at the rear of the property. I will try and post a picture of that later.
Many thanks for your interesting information Mitch. We’d love to have a photo of the surviving prison window and then we can add it to this article.
…or even a whole new article with the research Mitch has done, and/or ‘living in the prison’ would be great 🙂
The dairy was owned by my grandfather Harry Lapworth. He was well known in the area as he only had one arm. I vaguely remember visiting my grandparents there.
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