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Clink prison

Categories: Law

The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have stood on a number of sites in this vicinity. The first prison in 1127 was a cellar in the Palace of the Bishop of Winchester, and the last was in Deanman's Place (Park Street). Believed to be the oldest prison in England, the Clink took in its first female client in 1246. Protestants and Catholics were held here depending on which religion was uppermost at the time. Little used after the Civil War, it was burnt down in the Gordon Riots and never rebuilt.

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Clink prison

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Clink prison - blue

London Borough of Southwark The Clink, 1151 - 1780, most notorious medieval p...

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Clink Prison - bronze

Clink Prison The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have ...

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German internees at Alexandra Palace - WW1

German internees at Alexandra Palace - WW1

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Group, Law, Germany

1 memorial
Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton

Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton

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Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Alfred George Marten

Alfred George Marten

Son of Robert Giles Marten. Admitted to Inner Temple in 1852 and became a QC, County Court Judge and knighted in 1896. MP for Cambridge. Was Treasurer of the Temple in 1893. Died St Leonard's on Sea.

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins

Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9 February 1863 at Clapton, Middlesex (now Greater London), the last of the three children of the Reverend Edwards Comerford Hawkins (1827-1906) and Jane Isabella H...

Person, Law, Literature, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Parish Lock-up - Hampstead

Parish Lock-up - Hampstead

Parish Lock-up About 1730, this lock-up was built into the garden wall of Cannon Hall, where local magistrates held court. Prisoners were kept in this dark single cell until more lasting arrangeme...

Building, Law

1 memorial

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St Vincent's - blue plaque

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1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
General Wladyslaw Sikorski

General Wladyslaw Sikorski

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Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Poland

2 memorials
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Rifleman William Broughton

Rifleman William Broughton

William Broughton was born on 20 January 1887 in Cromer, Norfolk, the third of the four children of James William Broughton (1852-1922) and Emily Broughton née Blogg (1854-1891). His birth was regi...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial