https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/women-behind-bars monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/a-long-buried-secret monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/b818a911-6ec3-4636-a196-e4408409f7d9/PXL_20231102_132536077.jpg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret Particulars of The Trial and Execution of Jane Jamieson, for Murder at Newcastle Upon Tyne. 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John Bell Collection, Newcastle University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1701008875568-YYOGH6CGF5NDNLP3JMS7/PXL_20231123_105308081.jpg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret - Make it stand out Ballast Hills Nov 20th. Author’s own image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/4d1e6663-7e77-4725-8252-f09b68f02fb2/PXL_20231123_105322507.jpg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret - Make it stand out Broken gravestones that now form the path at Ballast Hills. Author’s own image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/747b9ed7-3103-4bbb-b5d8-961c65d20817/PXL_20231127_113904895.jpg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret - Make it stand out Remy The Lurcher/Assistant Researcher at Ballast Hills. Author’s Own Image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1701007005942-BV8DZQNMB5BORJKUX1NI/Ballast%2BHills.jpg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret - Make it stand out Ballast Hills Cemetery, 1926, courtesy of http://www.tynesidesilentcities.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/55e5e808-f459-4750-aeca-1220c1ef804a/Felon%27s+Plot+Plaque+Image.jpeg Life Inside - A Long-Buried Secret - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/force-feeding-in-newcastle-gaol monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/0902522b-9cd0-43cb-9e04-b35bb92f0903/Poster_Military_Service_Act_1916_Attest_Now.jpg Life Inside - Force feeding in Newcastle Gaol - Make it stand out British conscription poster for the Military Service Act 1916. Source London: Parliamentary and Joint Labour Recruiting Committees. 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Produced under creative commons licence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1649690586423-73E8U4WUU84HAI9GHUHD/The+93rd+Highlanders+entering+the+breach+at+the+storming+of+the+Secundra+Bagh%2C+Lucknow%2C+16+November+1857.jpeg Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1649690697350-C2O04ANPN68122ELB56K/Indian+Mutiny+Medal+With+Clasp+-+Baldwin+auction+-+W.White+Medal.jpeg Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/8c2da1b3-8e89-4333-8bff-04e14c2e8c68/Samuel+George+Emery+Newcastle+Chronicle+-+Saturday+15+December+1894r.png Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/5796cad7-ef5f-4a84-89be-370ed6f4f205/Port+of+Hyogo+Kobe+-+NYPL+c1900+Newcastle+Gaol+Project.jpeg Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne - Make it stand out The port of Hyogo, Kobe. Date Issued: 1901 - 1907. Publisher: s.n. Image from The New York Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/79e65264-1df1-4ea2-9c81-b42a0cc0c08d/The+Dalgonar+-+Beacon+Museum+CBR_TBW_WHHMG_2006_33-001.jpeg Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne - Make it stand out The 'Dalgonar', Desmond Gordon Sythes (1929–2008), The Beacon Museum. Image courtesy of Artuk.org. This painting depicts the sailing ship 'Dalgonar' which was built in 1892 and registered with number 993670 at Liverpool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/68894e2d-4097-43fb-9b52-0e821ec77895/Roderick+Hamilton+Burgoyne+Grave+Stone+-+Striling.jpeg Life Inside - The Remarkable Year of Governor Burgoyne - Make it stand out Image courtesy of Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201058945/roderick-burgoyne : accessed 11 April 2022), memorial page for Roderick Burgoyne (15 Jul 1837–18 Dec 1905), Find a Grave Memorial ID 201058945, citing Valley Cemetery, Stirling, Stirling, Scotland ; Maintained by Jim (contributor 47008269) . https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/who-would-be-a-hangman monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/56a9ff8a-02ec-408f-a761-c9d57c28cd49/Applicants+for+the+VACANT+POST+OF+HANGMAN+-+Newcastle+Gaol+-+Illustrated+Police+News+Newcastle+Gaol.jpg Life Inside - Who would be a hangman? - Make it stand out ‘Applicants For The Vacant Post of Hangman’, Illustrated Police News, 22 September 1883. 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Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1dc26f6b-a524-41e5-ab4a-2759e3495a29/Fishwives+Neville+Street+%26+Forth+Street+1890+Co-Curate+-+Newcastle+Gaol.jpeg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed - Make it stand out Fishwives trading on the of Neville Street & Forth Street 1890. Image courtesy of Co-Curate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1645623986328-HU4HI6IVF235J448AVSC/THE+OLD+FISH+MARKET%2C+SANDHILL%2C+NEWCASTLE+UPON+TYNE+Henry+P+Parker+c1829-9.png Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1645624000220-ZI4TBFQLQXRRHAQ4WUL5/Guildhall+or+Exchange%2C+Newcastle+on+Tyne+1829+w.westall+%26+E.Finden.jpg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1645624024963-PFK37262J90FTKSR5WR5/The%2BGuildhall%2B2019%2BCo-Curate%2BFlickr%2BNewcastle%2BGaol.jpg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615564850540-FG8H29TYSRMFAAYYJD2X/Jane+Jamieson.jpg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed - Make it stand out ‘Jane Jamieson as she appeared at the Bar March 5th 1829) on her trial for the murder of her mother.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619432384687-SGQP89VOULGR5V71A4JC/Hall+of+the+Barber+Chirchurgeons+1830+Co-Curate+Local+Historian%27s+Table+Book.jpg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619177258674-288NHAIO1QHXNMR7DI8N/Milk+Market+or+Sandgate+Pant+Newcastle+Libraries+Newcastle+Gaol+Project+4080054821_05dfb0b78c_o+%281%29.jpg Life Inside - The Last Woman Executed - And calls her ripe fruit with a voice loud and clear; The keelbullies listen in great consternation Tho'snug in their huddocks, they tremble with fear! She sports round the pant till the cock, in the morning, Announces the day — then away she does fly Till midnight's dread hour - thus each maiden's peace scorning, They start from their couch as they hear her loud cry Fine Chence oranges, four for a penny ! Cherry ripe cornberries - taste them and try!”[4] A view of the Milk Market or Sandgate Pant Newcastle upon Tyne taken in 1890. A group of children have crowd around the pant to listen to a street musician. Image Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/did-jack-the-ripper-kill-in-the-north-east monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1621258088694-4LYAXBRS32NZUTWVKK0V/Wrekenton.png Life Inside - Did Jack the Ripper Kill in the North East? - Make it stand out A contemporary drawing of the scene of the crime near a telegraph pole on High Street, Wrekenton. Inset image is of the butcher’s knife Wilkinson used. Image from Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, February 2, 1889. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1621257800058-L40GDIN66SN0SRMD3RBK/P.C.+Graham.jpg Life Inside - Did Jack the Ripper Kill in the North East? - Make it stand out P.C. John Graham. Image from Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, February 2, 1889. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1621257963719-5FG5UK5JTTZLLOPNLCV8/Wilkinson.jpg Life Inside - Did Jack the Ripper Kill in the North East? - Make it stand out Edward Wilkinson in the dock, Durham Assizes. Image from Newcastle Evening Chronicle, January 28, 1889. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1621260938331-1L9C5099H7SV5C7E3V7J/The+junction+of+Pink+Lane+and+Westgate+Road%2C+1899.jpg Life Inside - Did Jack the Ripper Kill in the North East? - Make it stand out The junction of Westgate Road and Pink Lane, 1899. Image courtesy of Co-Curate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1621256969881-0CX6PMHDJ4RGY3HIA6S5/Jack+The+Ripper+Letter%3F Life Inside - Did Jack the Ripper Kill in the North East? - Make it stand out A letter sent to Mayor Thomas Richardson, Windsor Terrace, Newcastle on January 25, 1889. Source: Newcastle Evening Chronicle, January 26, 1889. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/dissection-bodysnatching monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619430339726-ND1EOI6GDAXQ89J1K7MN/The+Barber+Surgeons%27+Guild+of+Newcastle%2C+surgical+instruments+in+a+display+case+bearing+the+Guild%27s+coat+of+arms.+Photograph%2C+ca.+1926.+Wellcome+Collection.jpg Life Inside - Dissection & Bodysnatching The Barber Surgeons' Guild of Newcastle, surgical instruments in a display case bearing the Guild's coat of arms. Photograph, ca. 1926. Image Courtesy of Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615564850540-FG8H29TYSRMFAAYYJD2X/Jane+Jamieson+as+she+appeared+at+the+Bar+%28March+5th%2C+1829%29+on+her+Trial+for+the+murder+of+her+mother.+Newcastle+Gaol+Project Life Inside - Dissection & Bodysnatching “Jane Jameson as she appeared at the Bar (March 5, 1829) during her trial for the murder of her mother” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619454184855-KQ8ZKRQVG1DH6Q1AU0HL/Inner+Gateway+of+thre+Haoll+of+the+Barber+Chirurgeons+looking+East+June+1843+Newcastle+Gaol+projectSANT-BEQ-15-1+PAGE+57+A.jpg Life Inside - Dissection & Bodysnatching G.B. Richardson’s ‘Inner Gateway of the Hall of the Barber Chirurgeons looking East’ June 1843. Image courtesy of Northumberland Archives. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/the-final-prison-executions monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618929470409-I4S6XQIMM3LTO00B315Z/Hawes+Street+off+the+Scotswood+Road. Life Inside - The Final Executions Hawes Street, off Scotswood Road, where Ambrose Quinn murdered his wife Elizabeth Ann. These streets were later demolished as part of the 1960s redevelopment of the Cruddas Park area and creation of several high rise towers. Image from Ordnance Survey 6 inch to 1 mile Old Map (1888-1913) of Newcastle upon Tyne, Full Map available here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618929828598-H16EEBU36S5C04L26XHO/Cruddas+Park+Flats+Multi+Storey+1965+4076853057_9fe9548fea_o+%281%29.jpg Life Inside - The Final Executions Black and white photograph of Cruddas Park flats (1965). Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616427729037-QAJLUAMJSU55VPLDBJRO/Illustrated%2BPolce%2BNews%2BErnest%2BBernard%2BScott%2Bcopy.jpg Life Inside - The Final Executions ‘Murder Charge Against A Northumberland Miner’, Illustrated Police News 21st August 1919. These illustrations detailing Scott’s murder of his ‘sweetheart’, Rebecca Quinn, and subsequent imprisonment accompanied a report on his case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616173258556-RJE502NC6X8MRW1B487S/Ambrose+Quinn%2C+ancestry.co.uk.jpg Life Inside - The Final Executions Ambrose Quinn - Image courtesy of Ancestry.co.uk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618932223167-GI5G1I7D7RQHYAR3C0LX/Clergy+Jubillee+School+carliol+Square+-+Newcastle+Libraries+1968+%281%29.jpg Life Inside - The Final Executions Clergy Jubilee School in Carliol Square, 1968. The school, first opened in 1821 sat directly behind Newcastle Gaol. Like the gaol it was designed by John Dobson. The school was described by Hisrtorian Eneas Mackenzie as “a plain, unornamented. stone building, without even an inscription to explain the cause and purposes of its erection.” Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/suffragettes-newcastle-gaol monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616164755286-9RJ6IUV3R99W47OHQLVR/Una_Dugdale_Duval_speaking_in_Newcastle_election_in_1908.jpeg Life Inside - Suffragettes in Newcastle Gaol Una Dugdale, British suffragette, campaigning at the Newcastle by-election, September 1908. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619087080016-43PQH088MVZZQQ8XE6NN/Lady+Constance+Lytton+1908 Life Inside - Suffragettes in Newcastle Gaol Lady Constance Lytton c.1908. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619086727418-CID3PTRHE10L52UH5CMT/Kitty_Marion_%28Katherina_Maria_Schafer%29_c._1913.jpg Life Inside - Suffragettes in Newcastle Gaol Kitty Marion (Katherina Maria Schafer) c.1913. Image Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616162829131-QDCU3KA3SFO6Y6HBGSVT/Katherine+Brown+Suffragette+-+Newcastle.jpg Life Inside - Suffragettes in Newcastle Gaol A plaque commemorating Kathleen Brown’s release from Holloway prison in 1909. The plaque is on the former site of the Turk’s Head Hotel, on Grey Street in Newcastle. Image courtesy of Newcastle Co-Curate https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/coroners-and-crime monthly 0.5 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618573029059-5A6Q0CN82WHZHXAZZJBM/death%2Bcert%2Banderson.jpg Life Inside - Coroners and Crime The Death Certificate of John William Anderson, following his execution at Newcastle’s ‘Carliol Square’ Gaol on 22nd Dec 1875. He was the first person to be hanged inside the prison under the terms of the 1868 Capital Punishment Amendment Act. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/punishment-in-prison-flogging monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616597866292-0OD7W4FKU0TU457XHRO7/Cat-o%27-nine-tails_%28PSF%29.jpeg Life Inside - Punishment in Prison: Flogging Cat-O’Nine-Tails Illustration courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618503429934-SP564YPQRBR24RO8D2IZ/Folk+Devils+and+Moral+Panics+%281%29.jpeg Life Inside - Punishment in Prison: Flogging - Moral Panic The term moral panic was introduced by sociologist Stanley Cohen in the 1970s. Cohen wrote “Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to; the condition then disappears, submerges or deteriorates and becomes more visible.” - Stanley Cohen (Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (London, 1972), 9). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616603656608-VXZXUEETFN7ECEUBYONM/Punch_anti-garotte_collar_1862.jpeg Life Inside - Punishment in Prison: Flogging Anti-garotte collar lampooned in Punch 1862. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616604038729-BGVC3EDQQNKI577OVWQX/Daring_case_of_garotte_robbery+-+Illustrated+Police+News Life Inside - Punishment in Prison: Flogging ‘A Daring Case of Garotte Robbery” Originally published in the Illustrated Police News 7 August 1880. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/all-the-fun-of-the-fair monthly 0.5 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618501333889-NEA13YKJ9OGTTCYULDKI/TWMS_LAG_TWCMS_G4789-001.jpeg Life Inside - All The Fun Of The Fair Fair on the Town Moor, Newcastle by John H. 'Jock' Wilson. Dated 1810. Image courtesy of the Laing Art Gallery accession number TWCMS : G4789 and produced under the educational agreement from Art UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619191726545-H78BHMOU7V2TWJSLAOU3/Map+of+Newcastle+Upon+Tyne+and+Gateshead%2C+1833+copy.jpeg Life Inside - All The Fun Of The Fair Thomas Oliver’s 1830 map of Newcastle shows the gaol and the extent to which the surrounding streets and areas had developed in a short space of time. The gaol was an imposing fwature in the centre of Newcastle. Image taken from Thomas Oliver’s 1830 Map of Newcastle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615997545830-BQJNK67CW77JG1ZT9B4M/Duke+of+Wellington+Pub+1969.jpg Life Inside - All The Fun Of The Fair The Duke of Wellington Pub 1969. This pub sat directly opposite the entrance to Newcastle Gaol. The large building behind it is still present today and is an apartment complex called 55 Degrees North. Image courtesy of Newcastle libraries. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/a-daring-double-escape monthly 0.5 2021-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615905163642-RHNT2GQUZ6RVUIEZ77DV/Newcastle-Gaol-standard.jpg Life Inside - A Daring Double Escape The high imposing walls and entrance tower of Newcastle Gaol, seen in a photograph from the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619516923842-MYAZ8IGT0JUYN8MVJ8FE/Newcastle+Gaol+exterior+wall.jpeg Life Inside - A Daring Double Escape The imposing prison wall of Newcastle Gaol as seen from above. The imposing entrance tower can be seen on the far right of frame. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/barber-surgeons monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619180789671-Q2JHQC9QRSMCW9QBNWBJ/Barber+Surgeons+Hall Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues Former Barber Surgeons’ Hall, Newcastle. In the foreground are four statues in the garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619432384687-SGQP89VOULGR5V71A4JC/Hall+of+the+Barber+Chirchurgeons+1830+Co-Curate+Local+Historian%27s+Table+Book.jpg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues ‘Hall of the Barber Chirurgeons’ (1830). Image from Moses Aaron Richardson’s 'The Local Historian's Table Book of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads, connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. Historical Division. vol. 1-5. Produced under British Library’s creative commons licence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619433168193-6I3BYKZL2BN2TNNXFPJK/Hippocrates%2Bstatue%2BBarber%2BSurgeons.%2BGeorge%2BRichardson.SANT-BEQ-15-1-58a.jpg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues George Richardson’s drawing of the ‘Statue of Hippocrates at the N.E. corner of the Garden of the Hall of the Barber Chichurgeons’ (1843). Image courtesy of Northumberland Archives. SANT-BEQ-15-1-58a https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619433836879-KMGOJZMSZQXPKU7NBZNK/SANT-BEQ-15-1+PAGE+57+B.jpg+George+Richardson%E2%80%99s+drawing+of+the+Statue+of+Aesculapius+at+the+N.W.+corner+of+the+Garden+of+the+Hall+of+the+Barber+Chichurgeons%E2%80%99+Newcastle+Gaol+project Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues George Richardson’s drawing of the Statue of Aesculapius at the N.W. corner of the Garden of the Hall of the Barber Chichurgeons’ (1843). Image courtesy of Northumberland Archives. SANT-BEQ-15-1-57b https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619433436846-CCJHE07E86MMZV6PGPUT/SANT-BEQ-15-1-58b.jpg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues George Richardson’s drawing of the ‘Statue of Paracelsus at the S.E. corner of the Garden of the Hall of the Barber Chirurgeons’ (1843). Image courtesy of Northumberland Archives. SANT-BEQ-15-1-58b https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619435798905-WJT3PUR39ALCXFJH60QZ/George+Richardson%E2%80%99s+drawing+of+the+Statue+of+Galen+at+the+S.W.+corner+of+the+Garden+of+the+Hall+of+the+Barber+Chirurgeons+%281843%29.+Newcastle+Gaol+Project Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues George Richardson’s drawing of the Statue of Galen at the S.W. corner of the Garden of the Hall of the Barber Chirurgeons (1843). Image courtesy of Northumberland Archives. SANT-BEQ-15-1-57c https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619431791402-C7K6YHX5K9CDHSD84FR0/Bell%27s+Court%2C+city+library.+Barber+Surgeons+Newcastle+Gaol+projectjpg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues Bell's Court Newcastle upon Tyne Dept of Environmental Health c.1935. Bells Court was rented in 1832 by Surgeon, and later mayor, John Fife and some colleagues to open the first medical school in Newcastle. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619432081873-9X73FYFPTVN7MO3H56XG/Barber+Surgeons+Hall+Houston+Street.jpg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues Former Barber Surgeon’s Hall, Houston Street. Image (2012) by Stephen Richards, reproduced under the Newcastle University Co-Curate project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619435364893-NV4WJY0MHF3YQ2738B4C/Newcastle+university+Sage+faculty.jpeg Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues Newcastle University Sage Faculty. Image courtesy of Newcastle University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619435689324-2OG8YS0TFUVHUDFL9LP6/Gardener%27s+Cottage+Barber+Surgeons. Life Inside - The Barber Surgeons & the missing statues Barber Surgeon’s Gardener’s Cottage. The only surviving part of the original Barber Surgeons Hall. Image author’s own 2019. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/a-prisoners-life monthly 0.5 2022-11-18 https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/judge-jury-executioner monthly 0.5 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615809137344-TVMCP9JYBHQ6GYCID8GW/James+Berry+Hangman.jpeg Life Inside - Judge, Jury & The Executioner Executioner James Berry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615896010249-DJ45PMDTBJZMMDZFU6PO/The+West+Gate+Town+Walls+Newcastle+upon+Tyne+1786+J+Fittler+.jpg Life Inside - Judge, Jury & The Executioner The West Gate Town Walls Newcastle upon Tyne 1786. The triple hanging of Northumberland Prisoners William Winter, Eleanor Clarke and Jane Clarke took place just outside these walls in 1792. The executioner was a fellow prisoner, William Gardiner, who had his sentence for sheep stealing reduced from life to transportation in return for fulfilling the role. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Accession Number b089 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615892174173-U1I3HOXC5TRJ2EUC6E6X/003729+Central+Station+Neville+Street+c1890.jpg Life Inside - Judge, Jury & The Executioner Newcastle’s Central Station’s grand portico entrance to the left of frame. Neville Street, 1890. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries accession number: 003729: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615809333062-70RU11OWS1NTZCZSI7U3/James+Berry+Executioner+calling+card.png Life Inside - Judge, Jury & The Executioner - Hangman William Billington One of James Berry’s business cards. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/double-execution-debut monthly 0.5 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/2e457768-b9bd-437f-8225-b30958d6e10f/John+Miller+%26+John+Robert+Miller+Newcastle+Assizes+Newcastle+Gaol+Executions. Life Inside - Double Execution Debut - Make it stand out John Miller (left) and the younger John Robert Miller (right) as sketched at their trial at Newcastle Assizes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615476535089-7IJEBR8EMH53REY5LWPL/William-Billington+-+wikimedia+public+domain.jpg Life Inside - Double Execution Debut - Hangman William Billington Hangman William Billington. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615997545830-BQJNK67CW77JG1ZT9B4M/Duke+of+Wellington+Pub+1969.jpg Life Inside - Double Execution Debut Photograph taken in 1969 of the Duke of Wellington Hotel in Carliol Square. A large office block is behind the pub and towers over it and the buildings adjoining the pub. The pub sat directly opposite the gaol entrance and although it underwent numerous name changes and refurbishments in the c20th it was only demolished in 2021 (Its final incarnation had been Wilder’s Nightclub.) Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Flickr. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/the-last-town-moor-execution monthly 0.5 2021-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616154695906-HV0IR1JSWAOBX2I3IT8L/mark-sherwood-the-lamentation-of-mark-sherwood-1844-johnson20-dbr-0001-0.jpg Life Inside - The Last Town Moor Execution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618848062835-XZNXP2QQTLP6TB92LEDQ/A%252Bplan%252Bof%252BNewcastle%252Bupon%252BTyne%252Band%252BGateshead%25252C%252B1802%252BIA%252BKidd.jpg Life Inside - The Last Town Moor Execution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619191726545-H78BHMOU7V2TWJSLAOU3/Map+of+Newcastle+Upon+Tyne+and+Gateshead%2C+1833+copy.jpeg Life Inside - The Last Town Moor Execution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1611844491081-Q9PI3BZCXV66EUFZDEGS/4076447058_ce53a2553e_o+Plan+of+the+Town+Moor+Castle+Leazes+and+Nuns+Moor+1830.jpg Life Inside - The Last Town Moor Execution The Town Moor and its triangular race track and Grand Stand shown on the right hand side of Thomas Oliver’s 1830 map. Plan of the Town Moor, Castle Leazes and Nuns Moor from an actual survey by Thomas Oliver 1830. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries Accession No 004250. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618495092506-AM7IXUULHO50ZCI5HNXY/Grand+Stand+Town+Moor+Undated+Newcastle+Libraries+065870+%281%29.jpg Life Inside - The Last Town Moor Execution Undated photo of the Grand Stand and race course on the Town Moor. The Grand Stand was damaged in a fire in the December of 1844 so this may well be the later rebuild. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries 065870. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/startling-suicide monthly 0.5 2023-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616163604125-FIAJBSDVCQEOU7FDHLCC/Screenshot%2B2021-03-19%2Bat%2B14.15.29.jpg Life Inside - Startling suicide! ‘Startling Suicide in Newcastle Prison’, Illustrated Police News 28th October 1911. Image coutresy of British Library Board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1617201640822-YKI0F2SQ0U2P3WT0WZ9U/Alexander+Ingram+-+Reynolds%27s+Newspaper+1911022.png Life Inside - Startling suicide! Alexander Ingram picture in Reynolds’s Newspaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1611679344802-WVIA0ODWZP6W9T7DEA78/Newcastle+Gaol+prison+wing+Photograph. Life Inside - Startling suicide! Undated photograph of a Wing in Newcastle gaol. The image gives an indication of the height of the wings themselves. It is very likely to have been taken around the time of the prison’s closure as netting can be seen running between the balconies. https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/blog/panopticons-prisons-dobsons-plans monthly 0.5 2021-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616514321902-WC27M70YW7QKMAHBFFQ2/Plans+for+the+New+Prisons+in+Newcastle+-+John+Dobson+Of+the+proposed+6+radial+winfs+only+five+were+eventually+created.jpeg Life Inside - Prisons, Panopticons and Dobson’s Plans John Dobson’s ‘Plan of the New Prisons in Newcastle’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616515000278-HJTV1DL2HUY8P384VAQI/Slide+6+-+John+Dobson+Flickr+Laing+Art+gallery+Co+Curate.png Life Inside - Prisons, Panopticons and Dobson’s Plans - JOHN DOBSON (1787-1865) John Dobson was an architect born in North Shields and based in the North of England. He had a prolific career, designing over 50 churches and 100 houses. He is perhaps best known for his work with Richard Grainger that helped redevelop the centre of Newcastle in the neoclassical style. Dobson was the architect responsible for the building of Newcastle’s Carliol Square Gaol in the 1820s and also designed Morpeth gaol in this same period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616514410044-1EL1HS1C8M0U36MOLBT3/Plan+of+the+Panopticon+-+1843+The+works+of+Jeremy+Bentham+vol.+IV%2C+172-3+Wikimedia.jpeg Life Inside - Prisons, Panopticons and Dobson’s Plans Plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison, drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791 from The works of Jeremy Bentham vol. IV, 172-3. Image courtesy of Wikimedia under a creative commons licence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616514739950-C6EYSVYN0RUGAA7PMLE2/Michel_Foucault.jpeg Life Inside - Prisons, Panopticons and Dobson’s Plans - Michel Foucault - Discipline & Punish “Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested...Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility…In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is this fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1617275299879-054L7CXRF3DRXOG15EDI/Jeremy+Bentham+UCL+Permanent+Home+2020.jpeg Life Inside - Prisons, Panopticons and Dobson’s Plans Jeremy Bentham’s ‘Auto Icon’ in its new permanent home at UCL’s Student Centre. 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A copy of a print from 1781 of the Newgate in Newcastle. In the foreground we can see and a man leading a loaded horse-drawn and a couple in conversation, possibly having partaken of alcohol. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616071468561-0A08449CDJB49GHJIKY6/Demolition+of+Newgate+1823+Newcastle+Gaol+project.jpg Pre Gaol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618829828804-3FJ8JY0Q37YQK4L4JR8R/OS+map+Gaol.jpg Pre Gaol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615905163642-RHNT2GQUZ6RVUIEZ77DV/Newcastle-Gaol-1920s+unknown+author+photograph..jpg Pre Gaol https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/executions daily 0.75 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619178679503-DO4UL318MND0QQ3NH7U3/Thomas+Oliver+Plan+of+Town+Moor+1830+Newcastle+Gaol+Town+Moor+Executions.jpg Executions Newcastle’s Town Moor depicted in Thomas Oliver’s 1830 map. The Moor itself was the site of executions for centuries with the majority taking place near the barracks (indicated on the left of the image - the site today is occupied by a Blood Transfusion service and next to that is BBC Newcastle. The final execution to take place on the Moor was that of Mark Sherwood in 1844 and it was undertaken on the Race Course (a location never before used). Image Thomas Oliver’s 1830 ‘Plan of Town Moor, Castle Leazes and Nun’s Moor. 1830.’ courtesy of Newcastle Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1610373413136-WYJKPA3OV1Q8EDJE7KSK/DMR_NEC_040315gaol_06JPG.jpg Executions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615984309856-PA0FWAMDOCHY5CFTR6PH/John_Scott_was_sentenced_to_carry_out_6_months_in_Newcastle_City_Gaol_for_stealing_lead_in_1872._%285342735696%29.jpg Executions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615560568402-83YN22T1ERY61SNCGII3/All+Siant%27s+Cemetery+Newcastle+Prison+Burial+Newcastle Executions https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/burial daily 0.75 2024-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619179499936-SZ8HO0Z608VN5VVHQF86/Winter%27s+Gibbet.jpeg Burial Winter’s Gibbet in Elsdon, Northumberland. Author’s own image (2015). Named after William Winter who suffered the post-mortem punishment of gibbeting in 1792. Winter was executed alongside Eleanor and Jane Clarke at Newcastle’s Westgate in 1792 for the murder of Margaret Crozier near Elsdon. The gibbet, still standing today (although subject to several reconstructions) would have held Winter’s encaged body for all to see as a sign of the ends of a criminal life. This punishment was eventually removed by the Hanging in Chains Act 1834. William Jobling, of Durham, was the second last man in England to suffer this awful fate. His gibbet was placed in a body of water called Jarrow Slake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619180789671-Q2JHQC9QRSMCW9QBNWBJ/Barber+Surgeons+Hall+Newcastle. Burial Barber Surgeons Hall, Newcastle. The site of many dissections of executed criminals, the last of which was Jane Jameson in 1829 and also the subject of the Rosanna Rox and Sophia Quin scandal.. The post-mortem punishment of dissection by barber-surgeons was ended in 1832 by the Anatomy Act. From henceforth medical practioners no longer had to rely solely on the bodies of executed criminals for their study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618488386483-YWMD6LXV95PZG30C5KS0/Old+Houses+-+Head+of+the+Side%2C+Newcastle.+Richardson%27s+Illustrations+Newcastle+Gaol+Co+Curate+project.++%281%29.jpg Burial ‘Old Houses, Head of the Side,’ A pre-1874 illustration by Andrew Reid. The print shows old houses at the head of the Side, the area where Sophia Quin lived until her death in 1840. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries accession no. 055263. Published under a creative commons licence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/55e5e808-f459-4750-aeca-1220c1ef804a/Felon%27s+Plot+Plaque+Image.jpeg Burial - Make it stand out The Felon’s Plot plaque, All Saint’s Cemetery, Jesmond, Newcastle. Image author’s own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618483580369-GSNPKNNDXXCDOEB0RYTK/Debtor%27s+Cell+G.B+Richardson+Newcastle+gaol Burial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615984309856-PA0FWAMDOCHY5CFTR6PH/John_Scott_was_sentenced_to_carry_out_6_months_in_Newcastle_City_Gaol_for_stealing_lead_in_1872._%285342735696%29.jpg Burial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618487632105-4B7EEP8C1HXBUM5Z8PKS/Noose%2Bblack%2Bbackground%2BNewcastle%2BGaol%2Bexecutions.jpg Burial https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/daily-life daily 0.75 2022-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1617281114784-GDYOVEO4D5KV4EXDJPF6/Debtor%27s+Cell+New+Gaol+Newcastle+Gaol+project+G+B+Richardson Daily Life G.B. Richardson’s pencil drawing of ‘Debtor's cell, New Gaol’, Newcastle upon Tyne, County of Newcastle upon Tyne. Image courtesy of Newcastle’s City Library. The debtors cells were comparatively far more commodious than the cells for regular prisoners and came with additional luxuries including a fireplace and several windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619175613258-44CZLOKGFKT3PU990MWU/Coldbath-fields-oakum-room-Newcastle+gaol+Project Daily Life The tedious and monotonous work of oakum picking in Middlesex House of Correction. This was a daily chore for many prisoners at Newcastle undergoing sentences of Hard Labour. ‘Large Oakum Room (Under the Silent-System) At The Middlesex House of Correction, Coldbath Fields.’ on p301 of The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life (1864) by en:Henry Mayhew (d. 1887) & John Binny Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619083763173-HBW69CG5FOA5MONXGIR8/Mary+Catherine+Docherty+aged+14.jpg Daily Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615470616822-A6UP1SD2550WGW73TYJM/Noose+black+background+Newcastle+Gaol Daily Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615560568402-83YN22T1ERY61SNCGII3/Newcastle+Gaol+Burial+All+Saint%27s+Cematery Daily Life https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/prisoners daily 0.75 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619082657978-QACXFAB6FPQCP39IKHNU/George+Ray.jpg Prisoners Along with Thomas Pearson and Robert Hardy, George Ray was sentenced to 4 months in Newcastle City Gaol for stealing ale in 1873. Image courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619082701304-LC6E7PIKJ68AQIONY11S/Thomas+Pearson.jpg Prisoners Thomas Pearson, accomplice to Robert Hardy and George Ray, was sentenced to 4 months at Newcastle City Gaol after being caught stealing ale. Image courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619082679458-JOTKDDFLNUY6H8PZCD23/Robert+Hardy.jpg Prisoners Robert Hardy was ordered to carry out 4 months at Newcastle Gaol for stealing ale in 1873 with George Ray and Thomas Pearson. Image courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619082753720-P703WS6S4MP981USIGOB/James_Loxley%2C_22-year-old_convicted_thief_%28Newcastle%2C_ca._1873%29.jpg Prisoners James Loxley was convicted of stealing money off a person and was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. Image Courtesy of Tyne & Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619085920351-68WIE4S2LFXZJZB5XXY9/2-4+Carliol+Street+Front+View+of+Both+Houses Prisoners A front view of numbers 2-4 Carliol Street. Number 2 was mentioned a number of times in police reports particulalrly in connection with prostitution. ‘2-4 Carliol Street Front View of Both Houses’. Image courtesy of Newcastle University’s Co-Curate project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619083763173-HBW69CG5FOA5MONXGIR8/Mary+Catherine+Docherty+aged+14+Newcastle+Gaol.jpg Prisoners 14 year old Mary Catherine Docherty was sentenced to 7 days hard labour after being convicted of stealing iron along with her accomplices: Mary Hinnigan, Ellen Woodman and Rosanna Watson. Image Courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619104833881-K4YNOWKWU49O5CLXEZPS/Ellen+Woodman%2C+aged+11+Newcastle+Gaol Prisoners At the tender age of 11 Ellen Woodman was ordered to do 7 days hard labour after being convicted of stealing iron when caught with Mary Catherine Docherty, Rosanna Watson and Mary Hinnigan. Image courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619104856478-JMIW01OTDLOFGTAJY5A7/Mary+Hinnigan%2C+aged+13+Newcastle+Gaol.jpg Prisoners Along with Mary Catherine Docherty, Ellen Woodman and Rosanna Watson, Mary Hinnigan was caught stealing iron and was sentenced to do 7 days hard labour. Image courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619177235756-TDHJYY86UN0YLPKVVC3A/Women+of+Sangate+c.1890+Newcastle+Libraries+Newcastle+Gaol+project4080056581_790b5207e5_o+%281%29.jpg Prisoners This photograph (c.1890) shows the women of Sandgate. One woman can be seen playing with a young child which she is holding in her arms. Two other women are sitting on a step sewing . In the background is a shop advertising Sunlight Soap. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1619177258674-288NHAIO1QHXNMR7DI8N/Milk+Market+or+Sandgate+Pant+Newcastle+Libraries+Newcastle+Gaol+Project+4080054821_05dfb0b78c_o+%281%29.jpg Prisoners A view of the Milk Market or Sandgate Pant Newcastle upon Tyne taken in 1890. A group of children have crowd around the pant (water fountain) to listen to a street musician. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616083904887-4DGDT4AFSF4TVRXJB1TY/John+Dobson+Daily+Life+Prison+Newcastle+Gaol Prisoners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615470616822-A6UP1SD2550WGW73TYJM/Noose+black+background.png Prisoners https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615560568402-83YN22T1ERY61SNCGII3/4078375837_a86f04b2c5_o.jpg Prisoners https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/construction1822-1828 daily 0.75 2021-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618848062835-XZNXP2QQTLP6TB92LEDQ/A%252Bplan%252Bof%252BNewcastle%252Bupon%252BTyne%252Band%252BGateshead%25252C%252B1802%252BIA%252BKidd.jpg Construction 1822-28 The Carliol Croft as seen in this section of I A Kidd’s 1802 Map of Newcastle and Gateshead. The croft was the largest plot of open land, roughly two acres, within the town walls (indicated by the red line). Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616514321902-WC27M70YW7QKMAHBFFQ2/Plans+for+the+New+Prisons+in+Newcastle+-+John+Dobson.jpeg Construction 1822-28 John Dobson’s ‘Plan of the New Prisons in Newcastle’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616076273276-FM4NWZ8I41FLDNF7CDUY/Dobson%252C%2Bimage%2Bof%2Bgaol%2Bgate.jpg Construction 1822-28 Gateway of the Gaol, Newcastle upon Tyne, by John Dobson. Courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618829828804-3FJ8JY0Q37YQK4L4JR8R/OS+map+Newcastle+Gaol+1860.jpg Construction 1822-28 This 1860 ordnance survey map shows the layout of the gaol. It also shows the Duke of Wellington Public House that sat across the road from the entrance of the gaol and the school directly behind the gaol. Image from Ordnance Survey 1:500 map (1860) of Newcastle upon Tyne. 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Sandgate was a very deprived area of Newcastle and, indicative of this, several of the children are in very tattered clothes and playing in bare feet. Image courtesy of Newcastle Libraries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615997237793-TO30U8FI3MKSV9G00DWR/Central+Newcastle-Upon-Tyne%2C+Illustrated+Police+News+1854.jpg Operation 1828-1925 Central Newcastle depicted in the Illustrated Police News in 1854. The prison can be seen at the far right of the image surrounded by its imposing boundary wall and with its dominating central tower. Cutting across the foreground is the railway line to Manors, the construction of which was responsible for the demolition and removal of the Barber Surgeons. The image shows the major arteries of Newcastle with Grey Street to the left of the image, (with the imposing Grey’s Monument at the top) then to the right is then Pilgrim Street and to its right again, Carliol Square (which the gaol entrance led out onto). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618833779493-W9CWIQN6IBAH0DPRR3Q8/John+Elliott%2C+Chief+constable+gateshead.jpg Operation 1828-1925 John Elliott, Chief Constable of Gateshead 1863-1891. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615997407209-DOJERAMEMMJV4KXVMIIK/Carliol+Square+1969+with+Duke+of+Wellington+Pub+4077986903_bdaf41a044_o.jpg Operation 1828-1925 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1616068697608-W2QDZ0GT7VTVJNLHQC65/Newgate+Gaol.jpg Operation 1828-1925 - 1600-1825 Newcastle’s prison pre Carliol Square Gaol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1610546084268-LIOYOURPVBJHSXPNYUIU/Carliol+Square+Gaol.jpg Operation 1828-1925 https://newcastlegaol.co.uk/closure1925-present daily 0.75 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1615905163642-RHNT2GQUZ6RVUIEZ77DV/Newcastle-Gaol-1920+photograph.jpg Closure 1925-Present A photograph of the front entrance and high imposing walls of Newcastle Prison, c1920s. In the foreground we see a couple and possibly a stray dog. In the background there appears to be several children and other people walking up the main road (Carliol Square). Despite the imposing height of the walls there were many successful prisoner escapes and also numerous reports of people sat on neighbouring rooftops or high windows in houses on execution days, to try and get a glimpse of the spectacle (particularly after 1868, when executions were moved behind the prison wall). ‘A photograph of Newcastle Prison’ c.1920s unknown author. Image courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618843298779-WHUFJSQSL8OXJ2XZD45L/Carliol+House+Pilgrim+Street+Newcastle+.jpg Closure 1925-Present Early construction work on Carliol House on the corner of Pilgrim Street & Market Street 1926. There are buildings next to the construction site on Market Street. In the foreground there are tramlines and tramwires. Image Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618843813180-OC0PMOH784S2C2AP2LN1/Carliol+House+complete.jpg Closure 1925-Present The near completion Carliol House on the corner of Pilgrim Street & Market Street 1926. Image Courtesy of Newcastle Libraries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fa57f6e7f53d60287328aac/1618925885813-ILMLVM3HTDU61NY3VIAR/Pilgrim+Street+Police+Station Closure 1925-Present A view of the exterior of Pilgrim Street Police Station Newcastle upon Tyne taken in 1930. The entrance to Worswick Street is in the foreground to the right. Market Street is to the left of the Police Station with Carliol Square beyond. The entrance to Worswick Street is in the foreground to the right. Market Street is to the left of the Police Station with Carliol Square beyond. 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