Alternative Names Birmingham Borough Gaol, Birmingham Prison, HMP Birmingham
Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1849
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Winson Green Birmingham
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Warwickshire
Alternative Names Birmingham Borough Gaol, Birmingham Prison, HMP Birmingham
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1849
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Winson Green Birmingham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 52.493206 Long. -1.937236
County Warwickshire
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 1463
Daily Daily average - 255
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 1779
Daily Daily average - 367
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 2399
Daily Greatest number - 454
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 3119
Daily Daily average - 380
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 4061
Daily Daily average - 480
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 5551
Daily Daily average - 494
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 6594
Daily Daily average - 532
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 6252
Daily Daily average - 472
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 8029
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 8469
Daily -
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: QS/B/24/2
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol general orders; Reports of Chaplain, Surgeon, Schoolmaster, Matron, Clerk
Dates: 1849-1853
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: BCC/1/AC/1/1-21
Collection: Birmingham City Council
Description: Watch Committee minutes. The Watch Committee acted as the administrative authority for the prison at Winson Green until 1878.
Dates: 1842-1900
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: BCC/1/AD/1/1/1-2
Collection: Birmingham City Council
Description: Minute books, including a good description of the new Gaol
Dates: 1844-1851
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: QS/B/23/1-6
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol Session minutes.
Dates: 1849-1964
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: QS/B/24
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Records relating to Winson Green, volumes relating to Gaol Sessions
Dates: 1849 -1873
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: QS/B/24/1
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Gaol general orders
Dates: 1849-1853
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: QS/B/24/3
Collection: Birmingham Quarter Sessions
Description: Minute book
Dates: 1868-1873
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: PS/B/4/5/1/1-2
Collection: Birmingham Petty Sessions and Magistrate Court
Description: Prison Visiting Committee minutes
Dates: 1878-1902
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: BCC/1/AQ/1/1, 1/3
Collection: Birmingham City Council
Description: Gaol Committee, minute books and draft minute books. It dealt solely with financial aspects, and in 1857, its function was transferred to the Finance Committee.
Dates: 1856-1857
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 1815/11
Collection: None
Description: HM Prison, Winson Green, register of executions
Dates: 1894-1962
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/296-299
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Birmingham Gaol, Warwickshire: Habitual Criminals Register
Dates: 1872-1875
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/430-434
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Birmingham Gaol, Warwickshire: Habitual Criminals Register
Dates: 1871-1875
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/436
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Birmingham Gaol, Warwickshire: register of convicts
Dates: 1849-1850
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM2/437
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Birmingham Gaol, Warwickshire: register of convicts
Dates: 1893
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: BCC/1/AM/4/1/1-3
Collection: Birmingham City Council
Description: Gaol Works Sub-Committee minute books. Includes details of the interior of the Prison.
Dates: 1871-1878
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: BCC/1/AO/D/2/7/3/1
Collection: Birmingham City Council
Description: New survey of the Borough of Birmingham by J. Pigott-Smith, Borough Surveyor
Dates: 1855
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 1421
Collection: Daniel Rowlinson Hill and Daniel Shenton Hill, Architects, of Birmingham
Description: Includes some papers relating to D. R. H. designs for Prisons in Birmingham, Lewes and Surrey
Dates: 19th century
Archive name: Birmingham Archives & Collections
Catalogue ref: MS 681
Collection: None
Description: Birmingham Borough Gaol, Winson Green. Specification of the work and particulars of the materials to be used in the erection of the Birmingham Borough Gaol, according to the designs of D. R. Hill, Architect.
Dates: 1840s
Archive name: Warwickshire County Record Office
Catalogue ref: HR101/5
Collection: None
Description: Birmingham broadsheets 'The Investigation respecting the cruelties perpetrated upon the prisoners at the Borough Gaol'
Dates: 1853