1 In Stretton the Warwick County Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents was established in 1818. It was a private venture, taking charge of convicted boys of 14-16 years of age, who ...
The Warwick County Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents, a house of correction, dating to the Imperial period. It was situated to the south east of Stretton on Dunsmore.
1 Building No 449. A Lock-up House owned by the Dean and Chapter of Worcester.
2 Mawkin End, a short wide area formed by the convergence of Shoemakers Street and the ...
The site of a lock up or prison dating to the Imperial period. It was owned by the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and is marked on a tithe award map of 1842. It was situated off Church Street, Shipston on Stour.
Violent conduct of runaways
The …Courier reports that on Sunday evening there was an “extraordinary and unprecedented occurrences at the Warwickshire Reformatory School for Boys at Weston under Wetherley, with 41 ...
1 The printing office of “The Meteor” is on or near the site of the town prison…whilst a few yards westwards were the stocks…in no infrequent use some 50 years ...
The site of the stocks, a wooden structure in which offenders' hands and feet were locked as a punishment. They date back to at least the Imperial period. The stocks were located on Sheep Street, Rugby.
1 At one time the old stocks were placed near the junction of School Lane and Bridge Street. According to a local man, they were in the playground in front ...
The site of stocks, in which the offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. They dated to the Imperial period, and were located at the junction of Bridge Street and School Lane, Kenilworth. They were later moved to Borrowell Lane.
1 When the stocks were removed from Bridge Street, they were placed in Borrowell Lane, opposite the pound. This was apparently for two reasons: the large increase in traffic ...
The site of stocks, in which an offender's wrists and/or ankles were held as a punishment. These stocks, which dated to the Imperial period were earlier sited in Bridge Street. This site was in Smalley Place in front of the Police Station.
1 Gothic revival building said to contain the lock-up.
2 One lock-up is marked (PRN 2116) but there is no mention of a second.
Documentary evidence suggests that this may be the site of a lock up which was in use during the Imperial period. It is marked on a tithe award map of 1842. The lock up was situated between Old Road and New Street, Shipston.
1 The Dunchurch Lock-up was a rectangular brick building 9’6″ wide by 14’6″ deep with a tiled roof. It had a solitary 2′ square iron grill on the left ...
The site of Dunchurch lock up which was in use during the Imperial period. It was situated on School Street, Dunchurch.
1 At the beginning of the 19th century a palisade of iron railings was placed between the piers supporting the arches at the Market Hall, and later the stocks, which ...
The site of stocks in which the offender's hand and/or feet were locked as a punishment. The stocks at Warwick Market Hall were replaced in the early 19th century by stocks on wheels which were used until 1872, for drunkenness.
1 Minor reference to stocks at Henley-in-Arden to the effect that they stood in the vicinity of the Market Cross.
2 The stocks are no longer in existence, and the exact ...
The site of the village stocks at Henley in Arden, in which the hands and/or feet of the offender would have been locked as a punishment. The stocks date back to at least the Imperial period, and were located near the Market Cross.
Barrack Street in Warwick used to be known as Bridewell Lane because the House of Correction or Bridewell stood on one side of it. On the opposite side stood the ...
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At a 4:15am Sergeant Walton met four boys in Fleet Street armed with sticks and with commendable pluck he went up to them and on accosting them ...
The Warwick House of Correction or Bridewell stood on the corner between Saltisford Rock (now Theatre Street) and Bridewell Lane (formerly Wallditch and now Barrack Street); the site is roughly where ...
1 The village stocks were on the W side of Church Lane at the top of Southam Road. J Hitchcox never saw them, but his father pointed out their position ...
The site of a pillory or stocks, a wooden frame through which criminals would put their hands and heads and be exposed to public ridicule. The pillory was in use during the Imperial period and was situated at the junction of Church Land and Southam Road, Radford Semele.
Opening
Come the mid 19th century there were repeated complaints by visiting justices, who remarked that the Warwick gaol on Barrack Street, and the Bridewell were unfit for purpose, suffering from ...
1 The gaol (PRN 1938) was much enlarged by Thomas Johnson between 1779 and 1783. The facade is considered ‘remarkable as one of the earliest attempts to adapt Greek Doric ...
The 18th century County Gaol, in use during the Imperial period, and abandoned in favour of another site in 1860. It is now part of the County Council buildings in Northgate Street, Warwick.
1 The prison was built c1860 to replace the gaol at Shire Hall; it was used until 1915 and demolished in 1933. The route of the perimeter wall is perpetuated, ...
The site of Warwick Prison. The Prison dates from the Imperial Period and was situated on Cape Road.
The minutes of the Quarter Sessions held in Warwick and Coventry are currently being indexed and they turn out to contain all sorts of surprising snippets of information. For example, ...
