Alternative Names Ilford County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison - House of Correction/Bridewell
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1831
Date closed 1878
Location London Road, 3/4 mile from Ilford Ilford
Map location in the vicinity
County Essex
Alternative Names Ilford County Gaol
Prison Type Local Prison
Jurisdiction County
Date opened 1831
Date closed 1878
Location London Road, 3/4 mile from Ilford Ilford
Map location in the vicinity
Lat. 51.554768 Long. 0.06125948
County Essex
Year 1833
Annual Committed - 630
Daily Census - 54
Year 1838
Annual Confined - 439
Daily Census - 31
Year 1843
Annual Confined - 561
Daily Census - 44
Year 1848
Annual Confined - 677
Daily Daily average - 59
Year 1853
Annual Confined - 879
Daily Daily average - 54
Year 1858
Annual Committed - 805
Daily Daily average - 42
Year 1863
Annual Committed - 609
Daily Greatest number - 38
Year 1868
Annual Committed - 734
Daily Daily average - 15
Year 1873
Annual Committed - 1034
Daily Daily average - 43
Year 1878
Annual Committed - 149
Daily Daily average - 0
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/1-3
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Returns. Of expenses of prisons and houses of correction (1815-1838); of chaplains of prisons (salaries and duties) (1832); of the number of prisoners in the gaols and houses of correction (1830-1849)
Dates: 1815-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACM 1-9
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: General Committee minutes. Include reports of the Gaol Committee and much relevant material on the administration of the county gaols and houses of correction (including improvements, staffing, labour)
Dates: 1796-1897
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGp 15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Examinations on prison discipline by Quarter Sessions gaol committee. Including evidence of Officers of Gaols and Houses of Correction on such matters as staffing, salaries, living conditions, cost, feeding arrangements, employment of prisoners, exercise, and effect of sentences, with analysis and statistics.
Dates: 1841-1844
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGp 17
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Reports and correspondence of Committee to decide on alteration or abolition of Ilford House of Correction
Dates: 1854-1860
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/CR 4/4
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Annual returns required by 1823 Gaol Act submitted by each county prison on printed forms giving particulars under 34 heads. Ilford House of Correction
Dates: 1844-1857
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/SBb 378 onwards
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Quarter Sessions bundles include individually catalogued reports of the Keepers, Chaplains, Surgeons and Visiting Justices of the County's Gaols, including Colchester and Newport Houses of Correction, the Gaol, House of Correction and Convict Gaol at Chelmsford, Ilford House of Correction, and Springfield Gaol. The records also include accounts, staff appointments and dismissals, dietaries and labour accounts, and correspondence on prison conditions and prisoners. Up to mid 1840s, contents described in great detail.
Dates: 1800 onwards
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/FAC 5/1-15
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: County Treasurers' Special Accounts: Gaols and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1767-1849
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/ACp 3
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Papers re Committee on salaries of County Officers. Papers relating to the duties and emoluments of the Keepers of the Gaol at Springfield and the House of Correction at Ilford.
Dates: 1845
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: D/CT 191B
Collection: None
Description: Little Ilford Tithe Map. Shows Gaol (County house of Correction).
Dates: 1839
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: Q/AGb 8
Collection: Essex Quarter Sessions
Description: Little Ilford House of Correction, building contracts, specifications and plans, County Gaols and Houses of Correction
Dates: 1827-1865
Archive name: Essex Record Office
Catalogue ref: SALE/B280
Collection: None
Description: Sale catalogue. Prison, Main Road, Little Ilford. 3 acres, with plan.
Dates: 1880
