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 ...
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 ...
Coventry had a gaol from the mid-14th century onwards. In 1675 it was located near the Cathedral between Gaol Lane (now Pepper Lane) and Cuckoo Lane. It was rebuilt in ...
A gaol was built in Warwick in the early 13th century and part of the castle was used as a gaol around 1600. The gaol in Northgate Street where the dreadful ...
The old County Gaol is the building next to Shire Hall, and was here until a new gaol was built at the Cape in 1860. After that part of the ...
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 ...