Norwich Prison

Overview

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names   Norwich Prison, HMP Norwich

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Prison

Jurisdiction   Local

Date opened   1887

Date closed   post 1900 (still open)

Location   Mousehold Heath, Knox Road   Norwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Norfolk

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Norwich Prison, HMP Norwich

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Local

Date opened   1887

Date closed   post 1900 (still open)

Location   Mousehold Heath, Knox Road   Norwich

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   52.6367  Long.   1.3179

County   Norfolk

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1888

Annual Committed   -   1465

Daily Daily average   -   114

 

Year 1893

Annual Committed   -   1277

Daily   -  

 

Year 1898

Annual Committed   -   1318

Daily   -  

Principal Primary Sources

  • Commissioners of Prisons, Eleventh Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.1, 209), p.68; Commissioners of Prisons, Twelfth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.1, 181), p.67; Commissioners of Prisons, Thirteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.1, 183), p.66; Commissioners of Prisons, Fourteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.1, 125), p.61; Commissioners of Prisons, Fifteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.1, 147), p.60; Commissioners of Prisons, Sixteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.1, 121), p.59; Commissioners of Prisons, Seventeenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.1, 183), p.57; Commissioners of Prisons, Eighteenth Annual Report (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.727, 865), p.60
  • Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1895-96 (Parl. Papers, 1896, XLIV.235), p.151; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1896-97 (Parl. Papers, 1897, XL.105), p.295; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1897-98 (Parl. Papers, 1898, XLVII.23), p.333; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1898-99 (Parl. Papers, 1899, XLIII.65), p.343; Report of Coms. of Prisons and Directors of Convict Prisons, 1899-1900 (Parl. Papers, 1900, XLI.1), p.388

Secondary Sources

  • http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/view/NCC098527

Management

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 14/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Visitors' book

Dates: 1898-1989


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 12/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Prison Inspector's and Director's minute books

Dates: 1881-1939


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 33/2-4

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Copies of Prison Commission circulars and memoranda

Dates: 1886-1897


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 37/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Books of reference: Acts of Parliament and Statutory Rules and Orders

Dates: 1884-1933


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 11/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Chairman of Visiting Committee's papers

Dates: 1863, 1882-1910


Finance

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/PO 1/40-42

Collection: Norfolk County Constabulary

Description: Receipts issued by Norwich Prison to Loddon Constables for prisoners and their belongings delivered

Dates: 1891-1901


Daily Business

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 25/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Governor's papers

Dates: 1889-1930


Staff

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 16/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Registers of Officers

Dates: 1882-1906


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/S/5/17-18

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Volumes of accounts of salaries paid to Chaplains, Surgeons and Gaolers etc. and of bills examined and posted 'by the Committee appointed for the purpose'.

Dates: 1866-1891


Prisoners

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 1/5, 8-10

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Nominal registers of prisoners

Dates: 1887-1907


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 2/2

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Indexes to nominal registers of prisoners

Dates: 1887-1898


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: HMP 20/1

Collection: Her Majesty's Prison Norwich

Description: Record of prisoners' petitions

Dates: 1894-1960


Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 160/23, 626 x 9

Collection: Martin, Sapey, Ellis and Robinson families collection of papers

Description: Letter to his parents from W. F. Mitchell, in Mousehold Prison, Norwich, after attacking his wife with a knife and also injuring his son. Refers to T. L. Sapey as Pastor at Claxton.

Dates: 1897


Land & Buildings

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: N/EN/24/16

Collection: Norwich City Council

Description: Thorpe Hamlet, Plumstead Road. Henry Newman. Plan of proposed new approach road to Prison by extension of Mill Road.

Dates: 1887