Hastings Bourne Street Lock Up

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Prison Type   Local Lock-up

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   unknown

Location     Hastings

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Sussex

Prison Info

Prison Type   Local Lock-up

Date opened   unknown

Date closed   unknown

Location     Hastings

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.861179  Long.   0.57052786

County   Sussex

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Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/1032

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Report of the special Gaol Committee of the Hastings Watch Committee having viewed the former gaol, which since 1856 has been used as a lock up, they recommend the alterations which would save the borough £200-300 per year

Dates: 1862


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Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/1020

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Letter from J[ohn] Ford Mackinzie, borough surveyor, Hastings to Hastings Corporation estimating that it will cost £450 to alter the old lock up (the former town gaol)

Dates: 1862


Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/1062-1063

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Tracings of proposed alterations to the Hastings lock-up by J[ohn] Ford Mackenzie, showing the front elevation, chapel floor and female ward floor, ground floor, first and second male ward floors

Dates: 1862