Derby County (and Borough) Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Derby County Gaol and House of Correction, Derby County Gaol, Derby Prison, HMP Derby

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

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1828

Date closed   post 1900 (1916)

Location   Vernon Street   Derby

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Derbyshire

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Derby County Gaol and House of Correction, Derby County Gaol, Derby Prison, HMP Derby

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   County

Date opened   1828

Date closed   post 1900 (1916)

Location   Vernon Street   Derby

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.9241681  Long.   -1.4927107

County   Derbyshire

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   549

Daily Census   -   94

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   617

Daily Greatest number   -   226

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   651

Daily Census   -   126

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   1070

Daily Census   -   168

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   1518

Daily Census   -   208

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   1364

Daily Daily average   -   187

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   1334

Daily Daily average   -   198

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   1597

Daily Daily average   -   244

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   2131

Daily Greatest number   -   327

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   2436

Daily Daily average   -   250

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   1651

Daily Daily average   -   190

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   3004

Daily Daily average   -   318

 

Year 1883

Annual Committed   -   2896

Daily Daily average   -   246

 

Year 1888

Annual Committed   -   2671

Daily Daily average   -   192

 

Year 1893

Annual Committed   -   2982

Daily   -  

 

Year 1898

Annual Committed   -   2941

Daily   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • 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.7
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.51; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.49; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.49; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.49; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.51; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.48; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.50; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.32; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.34; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.34; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.32; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.33; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.35; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.36; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.40; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.37; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.37; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.39; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.44; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.45
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.34
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.8
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.9; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.144; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.66; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.122; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.1; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.483), p.33; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.1), p.55; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.157; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.180; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.19; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.1), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.12; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.1), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.1), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.1), p.28; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.229), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.45), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.93), p.34; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.89), p.12; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.257), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.233), p.20; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.1), p.14; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.1), p.17; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.529), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.169), p.9; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.337), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.389), p.22; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.417), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.417), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.421), p.23; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.417), p.23
  • Commissioners of Prisons, Second Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXIV.1, 97), p.20; Commissioners of Prisons, Third Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXV.1,73), p.24; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.441, 521), p.27; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIII.443, 541), p.30; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXI.445, 579), p.33; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLII.461, 551), p.31; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXVII.527, 651), p.30; Commissioners of Prisons, Ninth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.1, 93), p.27; Commissioners of Prisons, Tenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.203, 335), p.24; Commissioners of Prisons, Eleventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.1, 209), p.24; Commissioners of Prisons, Twelfth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.1, 181), p.24; Commissioners of Prisons, Thirteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.1, 183), p.24; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.1, 125), p.23; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.1, 147), p.22; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.1, 121), p.23; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventeenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.1, 183), p.23; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.727, 865), p.23
  • Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1895-96 (Parl. Papers, 1896, XLIV.235), p.61; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896-97 (Parl. Papers, 1897, XL.105), p.197; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1897-98 (Parl. Papers, 1898, XLVII.23), p.220; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1898-99 (Parl. Papers, 1899, XLIII.65), p.212; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1899-1900 (Parl. Papers, 1900, XLI.1), p.246

Additional Primary Sources

  • Stephen Glover, History and Directory of the Borough of Derby (Derby, 1843), pp. 50-51

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.vernongatederby.co.uk/history.html

Management

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/4

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle containing: Reports of the chaplain to the gaol [1834-1869]; Reports and quarterly certificates of the governor of the gaol [1834-1839].

Dates: 1834-1869


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/8

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Governors quarterly reports and returns of prisoners

Dates: 1840-1869


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/9

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Envelope marked Box X 7A and containing reports of the surgeon to the County Gaol

Dates: 1834-1869


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D157/MT/3357-3361

Collection: None

Description: Bundle of papers of John Harrison as Sheriff of Derbyshire, including returns of prisoners

Dates: 1833


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/17/3/1

Collection: Gell family

Description: Home Office circular and reply regarding committal of prisoners to gaol

Dates: 1836


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/17/32/73-74

Collection: Gell family

Description: Home Office circular and Quarter Sessions return of the expense of the conveyance of prisoners under sentence of transportation

Dates: 1835


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/17

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Committee relating to the appointment of officers and classification of prisoners in the new gaol and house of correction

Dates: 1827


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/18

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Order for appropriation of the new prisons at Derby, the classification of the prisoners and their removal from the present gaol and house of correction

Dates: 1827


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/20

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of Committee to consider and report on the practicality of receiving the town prisoners into the County Gaol

Dates: Undated


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/28

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of miscellaneous papers including proposals on maintenance of borough prisoners in the gaol and house of correction 1836 and report on heating and ventilation of the gaol 1838

Dates: 1828-1839


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SO/1/15-59

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Order books and associated documents. Likely to contain material relevant to the administration of the county prisons

Dates: 1800-1899


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/22

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Visiting magistrates report

Dates: 1822


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/27

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of visiting justices

Dates: 19th century


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/31

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle includes minutes of the visiting justices and associated papers (1842)

Dates: 1840-1849


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/5

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundles containing visiting justices quarterly reports on the county gaol and house of correction

Dates: 1833-1859


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/7

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of visiting justices quarterly reports

Dates: 1860-1869


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/29/1-5

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Printed sheet headed 'Prison Dietary' and containing report of visiting justices of the County Gaol and House of Correction and letter addressed to the Home Secretary including their observations on the dietary 5 years before (in 1844) (5 copies)

Dates: c.1849


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/UL

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Reports of visiting justices 1825-1862

Dates: 1825-1862


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AH/1/30/9

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Report of the Visiting Justices to the County Gaol and House of Correction

Dates: 1850


Finance

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SP/14/139

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Quarterly return to the justices of the peace of fines, penalties and money received by the keeper and how applied

Dates: 1877


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/17/5/1-6

Collection: Gell family

Description: County Prison, Derby Annual abstracts of expenditure

Dates: 1830-1841


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D3247/1/1

Collection: Glossop County Court

Description: High Bailiff's return of expenses of conveying persons to prison (mostly before 1917)

Dates: 1856-1954


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/10

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Abstracts of expenditure at the County Prison, 1835, 1839-1868

Dates: 1835-1868


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/11

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle: direction to supply an account of expenses issued in building, repairing, fitting and furnishing gaols and houses of correction since 1800, 23 Mar; returns and accounts relating to the County Gaol and the houses of correction at Ashbourne, Chesterfield, Tideswell and Wirksworth.

Dates: 19th century


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/19/1-6

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of abstracts of expenditure at the County Prison, 1829/30, 1830/31, 1833/34, 1834/35, 1835/36, 1842/43

Dates: 1829-1843


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/22/1-10

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of accounts for maintenance of Derby Borough prisoners confined to the County gaol, giving prisoners' names, 1862-1866, 1868-1869 (incomplete, see also 2/31/1-52)

Dates: 1862-1869


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/23

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Return of amount paid for maintenance of prisoners, giving prisoners' names

Dates: 1857


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/31/1-5

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of accounts for maintenance of Derby Borough prisoners in the County gaol as 2/22/1-10, incomplete series 1857-1873, and including 2 copy covering letters for the accounts

Dates: 1837-1873


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/33/1-105

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle of New Prison Loan mortgages original nos 1-105 with nos 51-52, 54-56, 58-59 and 61 missing

Dates: 1823


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/RG/3/1-6

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Includes charges arising from rate for work on county gaols

Dates: 1801-1817


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SP/15/26

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Abstract of expenditure at the County Prison

Dates: 1849


Staff

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/16

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Statement of allowances made to Richard Eaton as keeper of the County Gaol and house of correction, with Mr Eaton's suggestions

Dates: Undated


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D239/M/F/8945, 8951

Collection: FitzHerbert of Tissington

Description: J. B. Goldsmith from Wirksworth seeks support for candidature for the position of county gaoler

Dates: 1832


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D239/M/F/8947

Collection: FitzHerbert of Tissington

Description: Reverend William Alderson recommends a candidate for County Gaoler

Dates: 1832


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D239/M/F/8950

Collection: FitzHerbert of Tissington

Description: E. S. Chandos-Pole reports on the new Gaoler

Dates: 1832


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SB/1/15-21

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: The Liber Pacis gives names including of the Master of the Houses of Correction, and the Gaoler. From 1828, Masters of the Houses of Correction ceased to be named. 

Dates: 1800-1870


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D1500/1

Collection: None

Description: Letter from William Marwood, Executioner, concerning arrangements for the execution of a convicted prisoner in Derby Gaol

Dates: 1880


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/28

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Statement of officers who were the servants of the late prison authority and are now in the service of the government giving names, position, salary

Dates: 1880


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/30/1-2

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Envelope marked Gaol Pensions, particulars of service of persons lately employed by Quarter Sessions as the late prison authority for Derby prison

Dates: 1879-1881


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/16

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: List of applicants for offices of governor and matron

Dates: August 1832


Prisoners

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM2/302

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Derby Gaol, Derbyshire: register of prisoners

Dates: 1836-1844


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D2/1/4/2

Collection: Derbyshire County Court

Description: List of prisoners in the custody of Sheriff

Dates: 1866


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D239/M/F/8697

Collection: FitzHerbert of Tissington

Description: Reference to Francis Goodwin, having been responsible for the new Gaol at Derby, seeks support for application for a district surveyorship in London

Dates: 1829


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D8/B/Z/13

Collection: Derbyshire estates (clients of Ward, Lockett & Balguy, Balguy & Barber, solicitors)

Description: Letter from Edward Coates in Derby County Gaol, promising to reform if he is released

Dates: 1835


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/2

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Card headed 'State of Prisoners' in County Gaol, giving offences, sex, numbers

Dates: 1835


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/1/3

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bundle containing nominal returns of prisoners in the County Gaol

Dates: Undated


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/SS/1/15

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Reference to John Smith at Derby Prison 

Dates: 1879


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D1842/ZP/1-6

Collection: Derby Gaol, building plans

Description: Plans and elevations

Dates: 1843-1868


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/17/5/7

Collection: Gell family

Description: Quarter Session order re new prison at Derby, including elevation and plan

Dates: 1827


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D369/G/Zpe/64

Collection: None

Description: References for the new County Gaol proposed to be erected at Derby, designed by James Elmes, Architect, London. With plan.

Dates: 1817


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D970/CP/1-7

Collection: Plans of Derby Gaol

Description: Plans and elevations

Dates: 1832-1866


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/17

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Printed report and accounts from the committee superintending building of new prisons for the county

Dates: 1828


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/18/1-9

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Printed plan of County Prison, orders for use of new prison and removal of prisoners from the present gaol and house of correction to new prison (9 copies)

Dates: 1827


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/24/1-2

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Draft contract for alterations and additions to the County prison, timetables of work, account

Dates: 1871-1877


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/25

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Bond for performance of contract for alterations and additions to County prison

Dates: 1871


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/AB/2/3-15

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Contracts relating to building of new gaol

Dates: 1823


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/RP/1/194/1

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Plans of alterations, County Gaol at Derby 

Dates: 1870


Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: Q/RP/1/201/1

Collection: Derbyshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Plan of land at Vernon Street, Derby, belonging to the County Gaol

Dates: 1877


Images

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D258/54/4

Collection: Gell family

Description: Collection of ephemera including 'South west view of the County Gaol'

Dates: c.1850-1870


Other

Archive name: Derbyshire Record Office

Catalogue ref: D1079/39/1

Collection: None

Description: Derby Prison riots booklet

Dates: 1831