Hastings Watch House

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Overview

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 136/35

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Letter from John Phillips, Clerk to the (Hastings Improvement). Includes reference to a watch house belonging to the Commissioners near the (Hastings) Gaol, containing four cells for prisoners and bed for the Beadle, John Cartier, who lives there.

Dates: 1836


Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/517

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Report by Inspector (John Campbell to the Hastings Watch Committee) concerning the escape of a prisoner from the watch house

Dates: 1852


Archive name: East Sussex Record Office

Catalogue ref: DH/B 136/520

Collection: Hastings Borough Council

Description: Letter to the Hastings Watch Committee re watch house, communication of prisoners with outsiders and escapes

Dates: 1853