Deal Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Deal Gaol, Deal Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1803

Date closed   [1851]

Location   Court Hall, at the back of the market place   Deal

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1850.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Deal Gaol, Deal Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1803

Date closed   [1851]

Location   Court Hall, at the back of the market place   Deal

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   51.217977  Long.   1.3924003

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Last appears in the penal statistics for 1850.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   31

Daily Greatest number   -   7

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   8

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   20

Daily Greatest number   -   7

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   19

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   21

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   44

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.151
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.24
  • 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.19
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.63
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.33
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 2 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.133), p.937
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.20
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.1), p.51; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.242; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.377

Additional Primary Sources

  • Samuel Bagshaw, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Kent, Volume II (1847), p. 354.

Management

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/J/Q/b/2

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: Returns to the Secretary of State, with a return to a Committee of the House of Commons as to the building, repairing etc of the Gaol

Dates: 1821


Finance

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/FAt1

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: Treasurer's account concerning the erection of a new Court Hall, Gaoler's House, Market Place etc

Dates: 1802-1807


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/AC2

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: Resolutions for a new Town Hall, council or jury chamber, market, common Gaol, and Gaoler's House, and the raising of a loan by subscription to pay for it. The laying of the first stone by the Mayor (1803). 

Dates: 1721-1804


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/AC3

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: Includes the completion of Ward No. 2 of the gaol, with the surveyor's specification, 16 October, 1809; letters from Rev. John on the enlargement of the gaol, 1826.

Dates: 1804-1835


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/AG1-2

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: Tender for completing the Gaol (1809), assembly minute concerning the enlargement of the Gaol, with estimates and a detailed specification, and the Secretary of State's observation on the Gaol Act

Dates: 1824-1825


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: De/P3-8

Collection: Deal Borough

Description: The Court Hall and Gaol. Plans and elevations of the Gaol, and its expansion, with additional Gaol wards etc

Dates: 1803-1828


Archive name: Kent History & Library Centre

Catalogue ref: Do/CA1/10/2

Collection: Dover Borough

Description: Prison appropriation. Proposal to use part of disused town Prison for police station. 

Dates: 1879-1881