Coldbath Fields Prison, also formerly known as the Middlesex House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel, [1] [2] was a prison in the Mount Pleasant …

Location Mount Pleasant, Clerkenwell London, Clerkenwell. County Middlesex. A House of Correction on this site from the early seventeenth century. But the Middlesex House of …

Feb 27, 2017 · In this post I try to shed light on the conditions and experiences of prison staff, drawing primarily on material from the eighteenth-century at the Clerkenwell house of …

5 days ago · Coldbath Fields is now devoted to male prisoners alone, the females having been removed from it to Westminster Prison in 1850. The treadmill finds labour for 160 prisoners at …

Jan 26, 2025 · The prison and workhouse buildings remained until the early 1800s, by which time the dilapidated, makeshift Bridewell had been superseded by a new Middlesex House of …

This dataset contains names and other details of prisoners who were tried for non-capital offences at the Middlesex or Westminster Sessions of the Peace and held at the House of Detention in …

Middlesex County Bridewell, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, London. In the reign of James I, Middlesex erected a Bridewell, or House of Correction, at Coldbath (or Cold Bath) Fields, an …

Jan 26, 2020 · This bleak place is Cold Bath Prison, or the House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields, a place so notorious for its harshness that the poets Southey and Coleridge wrote of it in their …

Nov 23, 2023 · Nestled in the heart of Clerkenwell in London stood the notorious Coldbath Fields Prison, also known as the Middlesex House of Correction or simply “The Steel.” First built in …

Jan 20, 2025 · Coldbath Fields Prison was built in 1788–94 as the Middlesex House of Correction, replacing the seventeenth-century Bridewell in Corporation Row. It was one of many prisons …