Wednesday 14 January 2015

Behind those bars …

FANCY a day out in a house of correction? 



Head for Littledean Jail in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean, built in the 18th century as what was seen at the time as a model prison that influenced the design of houses of correction in London and the US.


Exhibits include instruments of punishment and torture through the ages, a genuine murder victim’s full-size skeleton, personal exhibits of Britain’s most dangerous criminals, weapons used by the criminal underworld and street gangs, the UK’s largest private collection of British and foreign police memorabilia including uniforms and Victorian truncheons, and a hangman’s noose, plus – inexplicably – a Dr Who Dalek, a gypsy caravan, an Indonesian fertility statue, Nazi SS ephemera, and QUADROPHENIA memorabilia.

http://littledeanjail.com



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Picture Credit - From Top: 'Littledean Jail' via littledeanjail.com; 'Dalek' by Richard Howard / Go Holiday

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