Southampton Town Gaol and House of Correction

Overview

Details

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Overview

Alternative Names   Southampton Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol & House of Correction/Bridewell

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1855

Date closed   1878

Location   Ascupart Street   Southampton

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

The prison seems to have closed in 1878, despite plans to keep it which were published in the First Report of the new Prison Commission (1878).

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Southampton Town Gaol

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   1855

Date closed   1878

Location   Ascupart Street   Southampton

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   50.9057723  Long.   -1.3963195

County   Hampshire

Critical Remarks

The prison seems to have closed in 1878, despite plans to keep it which were published in the First Report of the new Prison Commission (1878).

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1858

Annual Committed   -   550

Daily Daily average   -   67

 

Year 1863

Annual Committed   -   606

Daily Greatest number   -   96

 

Year 1868

Annual Committed   -   601

Daily Daily average   -   51

 

Year 1873

Annual Committed   -   633

Daily Daily average   -   64

 

Year 1878

Annual Committed   -   249

Daily Daily average   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.40; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1859, Session 1, XI.169), p.32; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXIX.1), p.31; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIII.1), p.73; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirtieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXIII.1), p.209; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVII.1), p.187; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.203), p.255; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXIX.1), p.178; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVII.1), p.95; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXIX.241), p.115; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.1), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXII.1), p.134; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-eighth Report (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXIX.1), p.153; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Thirty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXVII.1), p.169; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Fortieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXV.1), p.169; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-first Report (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLIII.1), p.172; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Forty-second Report (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLI.1), p.172

Additional Primary Sources

  • William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Sheffield, 1859), p. 151.

Management

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC/TCBox/88/1

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Correspondence about allowances and pensions due from the Corporation as former prison authority, and about closure of Southampton Gaol. Also, prison rules 1878. 

Dates: 1878-1880


Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC/TCBox/7/91

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Letter from Thomas A. Firmin (Clerk to Guardians) to Charles E. Deacon about deputation for new Gaol. Box 7.

Dates: 1850


Finance

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC/TCBox/7/93

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Letter from C. E. Trevelyan, HM Treasury detailing payment for maintenance of prisoners. Box 7.

Dates: 1856


Staff

Archive name: Southampton Archives Office

Catalogue ref: SC/TCBox/7/104

Collection: Southampton Corporation

Description: Letter from S. F. O. Liddell, Whitehall to Mayor about pensions for prison officers (printed). Box 7.

Dates: 1879


Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 5M62/19 page 979

Collection: Winchester Probate District Registers

Description: Registered copy will of John Brewer of Southampton, Governor of the gaol, late of Freemantle Road, Gentleman

Dates: 1881


Images

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: 70A09/4/87/2

Collection: Derek Dine photographs

Description: Southampton - old prison (black and white photograph)

Dates: c.1880-1881