Great Grimsby Borough Gaol

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Overview

Alternative Names   Great Grimsby Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   [1780]

Date closed   [1850]

Location   town hall   Great Grimsby

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Lincolnshire

Critical Remarks

The Old Town Hall was built in 1780, and it is not clear whether the gaol also dates from this time. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1849.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Great Grimsby Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   [1780]

Date closed   [1850]

Location   town hall   Great Grimsby

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.5649207  Long.   -0.0824183

County   Lincolnshire

Critical Remarks

The Old Town Hall was built in 1780, and it is not clear whether the gaol also dates from this time. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1849.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   18

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   51

Daily Census   -   1

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   13

Daily Greatest number   -   5

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   79

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   20

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   7

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.30
  • 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.25
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.76
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.49
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2253
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.90; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.47; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.4; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.124

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (Sheffield, 1856), p. 577