[116993] Ripon Prison & Police Station : Work in Prisons

Prison & Police Station (former), St Marygate, Ripon, North Yorkshire, 1816.

Grade ll listed.

 

Life in Prison.

Work in Prisons.

We have already shown what hard labour was like in Victorian prisons such as Dartmoor, but prisoners also undertook day-to-day tasks to help with the running of the prisons in which they were incarcerated.

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This grim cell block was added to the House of Correction in 1816. It was designed by Thomas de Grey, 3rd Lord Grantham, of Newby Hall. From 1834 he was the first President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, The building survived as a West Riding Constabulary Police Station from 1887 to 1958.

 

 

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