Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1874
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Fort Road Rochester
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Kent
Opened August 1874 when a small working party of male convicts were sent to the prison to complete its construction. A prison for male convicts labouring at public works. Although best known as a male juvenile prison, it did not acquire that function until 1902.
Prison Type Convict Prison
Date opened 1874
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Fort Road Rochester
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.37 Long. 0.488611
County Kent
Opened August 1874 when a small working party of male convicts were sent to the prison to complete its construction. A prison for male convicts labouring at public works. Although best known as a male juvenile prison, it did not acquire that function until 1902.
Year 1878
Annual Confined - 522
Daily Census - 418
Year 1883
Annual Confined - 718
Daily Census - 511
Year 1888
Annual Confined - 555
Daily Census - 325
Year 1893
Annual Confined - 382
Daily Census - 256
Year 1898
Annual -
Daily Daily average - 280
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/224
Collection: Prison Commission
Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Borstal
Dates: 1856-1885
Archive name: Medway Archives Centre
Catalogue ref: 06a_DE_SERIES_1001_1200/DE1049
Collection: None
Description: Miss Hilda Jacobs of 113 Richmond Road, Gillingham. Records of career of Charles Edwin Jacobs (1858-1949) including as Assistant Warder, HM Convict Prisons Service, serving firstly at HM Convict Prison, Chatham (from 1884), and then at HM prison, Borstal (until 1899).
Dates: c.1884
Archive name: The National Archives
Catalogue ref: HO 8/201-207
Collection: Home Office
Description: Quarterly returns of prisoners in Convict Prisons and Criminal Lunatic Asylums, Borstal, Kent
Dates: 1874-1876