Alternative Names Holloway City Gaol and Debtors, Holloway Prison, HMP Holloway
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1852
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Camden Road Holloway London, Holloway
Map location exact or closely approximate
County Middlesex
Originally the House of Correction for the City of London
Alternative Names Holloway City Gaol and Debtors, Holloway Prison, HMP Holloway
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction Municipality
Date opened 1852
Date closed post 1900 (still open)
Location Camden Road Holloway London, Holloway
Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.554008 Long. -0.125308
County Middlesex
Image Attribution 'Bird's-eye view of ... Holloway' in Mayhew and Binny, Criminal Prisons of London (1862), facing p. 416
Originally the House of Correction for the City of London
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 1340
Daily Daily average - 200
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 1763
Daily Daily average - 357
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 1724
Daily Greatest number - 440
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 1979
Daily Daily average - 348
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 2302
Daily Daily average - 293
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 2334
Daily Daily average - 305
Year 1883
Annual Committed - 7745
Daily Daily average - 664
Year 1888
Annual Committed - 14090
Daily Daily average - 747
Year 1893
Annual Committed - 21828
Daily -
Year 1898
Annual Committed - 26951
Daily -
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: CLA/032/01
Collection: Prisons and Compters
Description: These records include accounts and financial papers, statutes and bills relating to gaols and prisons, Acts of the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen, various Committee minutes and papers, including reports of the Gaol Committee, contracts, petitions, regulations, papers relating to the health of the prisoners, reports of the Commissioners of Prisons, and papers relating to prison charities. Prisons mentioned include Holloway
Dates: 1487-1878
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: CLA/034/01/026
Collection: Whitecross Street Prison
Description: Order, Secretary of State, that the prisoners confined in Whitecross Street Prison shall be transferred to the Prison at Holloway. Names of the Prisoners in the margin.
Dates: 1870
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: COL/CA/GAC
Collection: Court of Alderman: Gaol Committee
Description: Responsible for the administration of London prisons. Minutes, papers and reports contain material relevant to the administration of the Hollway
Dates: 1794-1878
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: COL/CC/PCC
Collection: Court of Common Council: Prisons Committee
Description: Minutes and papers on the establishment and construction of the new prison at Holloway
Dates: 1842-1853
Archive name: Surrey History Centre
Catalogue ref: QS5/15/27
Collection: Surrey Quarter Sessions
Description: Letters and circulars, chiefly from Secretary of State and Treasury, including re custody of females awaiting trial at Central Criminal Court in Holloway House of Correction during alterations to Newgate Prison.
Dates: 1860
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: COL/CC/FNG
Collection: Court of Common Council: Gaol Expenses and Finance Committee
Description: Responsible for the financial administration of those prisons owned by the Corporation. Minutes and committee papers contain evidence relating to Hollway
Dates: 1816-1834
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: CLA/003/AD/05/003
Collection: HM Prison Holloway
Description: Holloway prison, printed book of Communion and other services
Dates: 1869
Archive name: Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Catalogue ref: 3040/12
Collection: None
Description: Register of Plymouth Prison Officers. Refers to their employment at various prisons, including Holloway
Dates: Late 19th century-c.1926
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: CLA/003/MC/01/001
Collection: HM Prison Holloway
Description: Holloway Prison register of prisoners for trial
Dates: 1876-1877
Archive name: Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
Catalogue ref: A63/IV/9/27
Collection: Hampton Court Estate
Description: Bundle of letters received by John Arkwright on various personal matters, including thanks from Mr Cohen writing from City Prison, Holloway
Dates: 1856
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: P83/GEO/001-004
Collection: None
Description: St George, Tufnell Park. Baptisms solemnised at Holloway Prison.
Dates: 1868-1904
Archive name: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
Catalogue ref: 09/11/2007, 2009, 2017, 2018
Collection: Autograph letter collection
Description: Letters related to William Thomas Stead in Holloway Prison
Dates: 1885
Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives
Catalogue ref: COL/SVD/PL/08/0550-0675
Collection: Surveyor's Department: Plans
Description: Plans. Hollway Prison
Dates: 1846-c.1870
Archive name: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
Catalogue ref: 3AMS/G/04/237
Collection: Records of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene
Description: Greetings card, paper, featuring monochrome sketch images of Holloway Goal, and the head and shoulders of William T. Stead. Inscriptions on front 'A New Year's Greeting from Holloway Gaol'.
Dates: 1886