Gps Coordinates / 51.5089058,-0.07798
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St Katharine's & Wapping, London
The notorious prison systems of our past known for their bad maintenance, torture techniques, abhorrent staff and regulations, or lack thereof through the 16th, 17th 18th and even right up to the late 19th century were techniques from the old still being used today, that being’ keep them in perpetual sadness and misery
Alcatraz
GPS coordinates / 37.818043, -122.419018
Gps Coordinates / 37.8265199,-122.4227229
Project Alcatraz failed for being too expensive as it only housed 450 inmates and cost a fortune to maintain, granted 450 of those inmates were the worst America criminal minds America had to offer. Some of those criminal minds would later be released to run havoc in the country, one such case is called James Bulger (whitey) who was let back into society and he then went about killing hundreds possibly thousands and took control of a Mayor in Boston and even the F.B.I gave him a free-pass, he even supplied the IRA with weapons which gave him a door opening as an official illegal international arms trader. That’s just an example of type of people who were housed here.
Tower of London --the debtors Tower and gate--
Tower of London --the debtors Tower and gate--
GPS coordinates / 51.508906, -0.077982
Tower of London Despite its enduring reputation as a guardhouse, dungeon of torture and death, popularised by 16th-century religious propagandists and 19th-century writers only 112 people were executed here within a 400-year period, granted after torturing them though they were probably relocated for execution or just plain execution by severe torture somewhere else. Nobody can really be sure the true extent where half the time it’s down played and the other half it’s frenzied, it does make for a good book afterall
Tower of London Despite its enduring reputation as a guardhouse, dungeon of torture and death, popularised by 16th-century religious propagandists and 19th-century writers only 112 people were executed here within a 400-year period, granted after torturing them though they were probably relocated for execution or just plain execution by severe torture somewhere else. Nobody can really be sure the true extent where half the time it’s down played and the other half it’s frenzied, it does make for a good book afterall
GPS coordinates / 51.507246, -0.076770 / 51.507837, -0.076148 / 51.507557, -0.076439
Oxford Castle
GPS coordinates / 51.751214, -1.263727
Oxford Castle by the 14th century fell into disrepair was getting old as it was a 10th Century castle afterall and was converted into the Jail and Criminal court right up to 1577 until the black plague broke out known locally as the “Black Assize” as it claimed many prominent figures in and around, or to be more specific
“the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, two knights, eighty gentlemen and the entire grand jury for the session all died”
It would remain abandoned until the Church took it over in the mid 16th century leading to religious civil war over King church and state versus the newly formed government, the Royalists made Oxford their capital but by 1646 the government besieged this castle, it would receive the fortification it was lacking through-out it’s history and most of it’s medieval stone-work demolished and replaced with more modern stone-works you see today. It would survive one more civil war after-this and stay pretty much intact to the castle you see before you today
The 17th, 18th and 19th versions of this Castle prison was still used for imprisonment and execution as the gallows were still in use but torture was taken off the menu, or at least in open conversations to the public, it was about reforming prisoners at this point most of many were used to excavate the lost parts of this castle for the purpose of archaeological purposes
Oxford Castle by the 14th century fell into disrepair was getting old as it was a 10th Century castle afterall and was converted into the Jail and Criminal court right up to 1577 until the black plague broke out known locally as the “Black Assize” as it claimed many prominent figures in and around, or to be more specific
“the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, two knights, eighty gentlemen and the entire grand jury for the session all died”
It would remain abandoned until the Church took it over in the mid 16th century leading to religious civil war over King church and state versus the newly formed government, the Royalists made Oxford their capital but by 1646 the government besieged this castle, it would receive the fortification it was lacking through-out it’s history and most of it’s medieval stone-work demolished and replaced with more modern stone-works you see today. It would survive one more civil war after-this and stay pretty much intact to the castle you see before you today
The 17th, 18th and 19th versions of this Castle prison was still used for imprisonment and execution as the gallows were still in use but torture was taken off the menu, or at least in open conversations to the public, it was about reforming prisoners at this point most of many were used to excavate the lost parts of this castle for the purpose of archaeological purposes
Melbourne Gaol Australia
GPS coordinates / -37.807898, 144.965050
GPS coordinates / -37.8077831,144.9654666
We couldn’t mention relic prison systems without throwing in an Australian one, afterall this was how England dealt with their own prison population, they shipped em all to Australia and made a prison colony there. Out of the first prisons to be built this was one of them and it was to host the worst that Australia had to offer, and since this was an Australian prison colony, there was no shortage of escaped prisoners running around Australia murdering police, it turns out the worst of them really had a fetish for murdering the police colonial authorities, it empowered them to the locals and the outlaws were more than willing to oblige
In Total 133 hangings were carried out here from 1845 up till the early 19th Century when it was closed but briefly re-opened because of WWII
--recommended viewing--
I watched a really cracking film about this called the proposition, if you enjoy Australian Colonisation stories i highly advise it as it gives you a really good vicious glimpse into
In Total 133 hangings were carried out here from 1845 up till the early 19th Century when it was closed but briefly re-opened because of WWII
--recommended viewing--
I watched a really cracking film about this called the proposition, if you enjoy Australian Colonisation stories i highly advise it as it gives you a really good vicious glimpse into
these criminal outlaws starring Ray Winstone, John Hurt and Guy Pearce
