The Police House, 138 Ford Green Road, Smallthorne
This plan is of the police house in Smallthorne which was a two storey building with a small cellar. Diagrams (clockwise from top):
- Site plan (Scale 1:100)
- The front of the police house
- The back ...
The Pound, Pattingham
The village pound was a lock-up which stood on the north side of Newgate near the junction with Westbeech Road. It was demolished in about 1961.
The Round House, Alton
This is a view of the village lock-up, built in 1819 and renovated in 1977.
The Round House, Alton
This solidly built structure with stone walls, roof and cupola dates from c1815. It was erected as the village's lock-up, with the purpose of housing felons. Clearly it would have been virtually impossible ...
The Station Drama Club, RAF Stafford
The Station Drama Club presents the comedy 'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here' at Stafford Prison.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near ...
The Stocks, Penkridge
This colour tinted postcard view shows the village stocks which stand in front of the Old Gaol in Penkridge. Built in the early 19th century, the Old Gaol was the village lock-up and stands on Bellbrook. ...
The Towers, Stafford Gaol,
A tower was built at each corner of the gaol in the mid-nineteenth century to provide living accommodation for prison warders, and would have afforded some supervision over the site. When the Crescent ...
Treadwheel, Stafford Gaol
Treadwheels were introduced as a form of prison punishment in 1817, often serving no other purpose than to enforce hard, monotonous work, though some powered pumping or grinding machines.
At Stafford ...
Treadwheel, Stafford Gaol
Treadwheels were introduced as a form of prison punishment in 1817.
The treadwheels at Stafford Gaol powered the corn mill and pumped water from wells within the prison grounds.
Vicarage Row and the Lock-up, Alton
A view of Vicarage Row on Dimble Lane from the north east , with the village lock-up, built in 1819 and renovated in 1977, standing to the right. The stone-built cottages on Vicarage Row date from the ...
Village lock-up, Gnosall
A pen and ink sketch on a blank white postcard. View of the lock-up in Gnosall with the inscription: 'Jail / Gnosall'. Signed 'ESPE / 1923'. Dimensions 88mm x 140mm.
Artist: Sydney Pearson (1890-1948). ...
White Lion Inn, Stafford,
The White Lion Inn was built on the site of the medieval St. John's Hospital and Chapel on Lichfield Road; the rear structure of the inn included stonework from the old chapel. On the right is the eighteenth ...
Women's Prison, Stafford Gaol
Male and female prisoners had always been kept separate, but due to overcrowding a new gaol for females was built in 1852. This allowed the Separate System to be introduced in which it was believed that ...