Liverpool New Borough Gaol and House of Correction

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Overview

Alternative Names   Liverpool Borough Gaol, Liverpool Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1811 [1787]

Date closed   1855

Location   Great Howard Street   Liverpool

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

Although built in 1787, the prison did not accept city prisoners until 1811.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Liverpool Borough Gaol, Liverpool Borough Gaol and House of Correction

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1811 [1787]

Date closed   1855

Location   Great Howard Street   Liverpool

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   53.4192293  Long.   -2.9964689

County   Lancashire

Critical Remarks

Although built in 1787, the prison did not accept city prisoners until 1811.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   509

Daily Greatest number   -   155

 

Year 1823

Annual Committed   -   950

Daily Census   -   80

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   1421

Daily Census   -   129

 

Year 1833

Annual Committed   -   1518

Daily Census   -   133

 

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   4242

Daily Census   -   427

 

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   7931

Daily Census   -   600

 

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   11243

Daily Daily average   -   898

 

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   9263

Daily Daily average   -   714

Principal Primary Sources

  • James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.355
  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.26
  • Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.65; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.75; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.22
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.280; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.364; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.354; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.309; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.365; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.328; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.332; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.324; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.323; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.349; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.334; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.319; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.214; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.215; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.218; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.216; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.232; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.245; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.246; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.248; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.238; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.275; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.284; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.289; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.293
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2716
  • Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.26
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.499), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.125; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.1), p.82; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.1), p.106; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1843, XXV. & XXVI.249), p.9; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.1), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.361), p.15; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain IV. Northern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.167), p.65; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.252; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.10; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.29; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Nineteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXIII.385), p.27; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 1, VII.313), p.18; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Twenty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1857, Session 2, XXIII.1), p.25

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.liverpoolpicturebook.com/2013/01/LiverpoolsPrisons.html

Management

Archive name: Lancashire Archives

Catalogue ref: QGV/3/1-7

Collection: Lancashire Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters concerning the use of Liverpool Borough Gaol for prisoners usually confined at Kirkdale House of Correction because of cholera outbreak

Dates: 1832


Archive name: Liverpool Record Office

Catalogue ref: 347 JUS/4/1

Collection: Licensing records of Liverpool City Petty Sessions

Description: Justices Sessions Gaol and House of Correction Minute Books

Dates: 1837-1851


Archive name: Liverpool Record Office

Catalogue ref: 352 MIN/GAO/1

Collection: Minutes of Liverpool Borough and City Council

Description: Minutes of the Gaol and House Correction Committee

Dates: 1837-1851


Finance

Archive name: Liverpool Record Office

Catalogue ref: 352 MIN/GAO/2/1-4

Collection: Minutes of Liverpool Borough and City Council

Description: Minutes of the Gaol Finance Committee

Dates: 1836-1857


Staff

Archive name: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Catalogue ref: D15/4/1

Collection: None

Description: Papers in a cause concerning an administration with will annexed of Charles Duke, governor of Liverpool gaol

Dates: 1852


Archive name: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

Catalogue ref: WYL383/61/12

Collection: None

Description: John Blackburn's Medical Testimonials and Application for Surgeon of Liverpool Gaol

Dates: 1838