Beccles House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Beccles County House of Correction,

Prison Type   Local Prison -  House of Correction/Bridewell, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1679

Date closed   1861

Location   Newgate Street   Beccles

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

There was a prison in Beccles before 1679 but its location is not known. On closure in 1861, the House of Correction was converted into a police station.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Beccles County House of Correction,

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1679

Date closed   1861

Location   Newgate Street   Beccles

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.4578172  Long.   1.5645162

County   Suffolk

Critical Remarks

There was a prison in Beccles before 1679 but its location is not known. On closure in 1861, the House of Correction was converted into a police station.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   123

Daily Greatest number   -   24

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   118

Daily Census   -   118

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   94

Daily Census   -   94

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   142

Daily Census   -   172

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   145

Daily Census   -   21

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   254

Daily Census   -   24

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   208

Daily Daily average   -   17

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   264

Daily Daily average   -   32

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   196

Daily Daily average   -   23

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.33
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.44
  • [Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.21; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.72; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.105; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.131; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.136; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.41
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.210; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.250; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.240; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.220; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.256; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.226; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.225; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.220; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.220; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.234; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.222; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.212; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.142; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.142; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.147; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.144; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.151; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.158; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.160; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.158; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.162; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.194; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.187; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.202; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.210
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2138
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.56
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District. First Report (Parl. Papers, 1836, XXXV.161), p.85; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.158; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.161; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.58; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.64; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.90; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.87; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.44; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.1), p.50; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.120; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.112; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.111

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk (2nd edn, Sheffield, 1855), p. 646

Management

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/92

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaoler's report, Beccles

Dates: undated


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HB26/412/2084

Collection: Rous family, Earls of Stradbroke

Description: Letter from John Garden, Redisham, concerning payment of fines by the Gaoler of Beccles

Dates: 1853


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/49

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Gaoler's reports and certificates and visitors' reports. Bury and Beccles Gaols and Houses of Correction.

Dates: 1843


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/28

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Beccles Gaol, report of visitors

Dates: 1846


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/24/81

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of visitors to House of Correction

Dates: 1846


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/11

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Beccles House of Correction, report of visitors

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/17

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Beccles, March Sessions. Minutes, City business, and prisoners' sentences.

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/54

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Beccles Gaol, annual return

Dates: 1850


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/25/58

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Beccles Gaol, annual return

Dates: 1849


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/29A/3

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers re discontinuing Beccles Gaol as House of Correction

Dates: 1861


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: B/100/1/50

Collection: Suffolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Papers relating to Gaols and Houses of Correction, Bury and Beccles. Chiefly reports.

Dates: 1844-1845


Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: HA11/B3/9

Collection: Rous family archives

Description: Returns of prisoners in Ipswich Gaol and Beccles House of Correction

Dates: 1846-1851


Prisoners

Archive name: Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Catalogue ref: Acc1122/1-12

Collection: None

Description: Beccles House of Correction, prison registers

Dates: 1791-1848