Ilford House of Correction

Overview

Details

Records

Overview

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

Prison Info

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

Prisoner Statistics

 

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

Principal Primary Sources

  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.81; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.76; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.80; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.49; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.53; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.51; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.49; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.50; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.51; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.51; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.56; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.54; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.60; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.59; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.63; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.61
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.14
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837 XXXII.1), p.332; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXX.1), p.230; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.159; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.167; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.141; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIII.1), p.190; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.93; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.30; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.169), p.21; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.1), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.31; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.83; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.94; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.63; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.67; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.49; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.93; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.107; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.116; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.116; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.118; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.118

Management

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


Finance

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


Staff

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


Land & Buildings

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