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Does any of the prison still exist within Mount Pleasant ("they slowly transformed the buildings")?
Elsie | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Found the answer 
Elsie | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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...but what was it Elsie?
Do we all have to search for ourselves?
NiC | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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"In 1887 the Post Office adapted part of the vacant prison, the treadmill houses, for use as a temporary parcel office.
The old prison was officially transferred to the Post Office in 1889. The old prison was gradually replaced to make way for Post Office buildings as more and more space was needed.
The original prison gate was incorporated into this new sorting office and not demolished until 1901.
The last remaining sections of the prison were demolished in 1929..."
Elsie | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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my god, Coldbath Fields Prison. what a nightmare. i shall now have to pointlessly cross myself when I pass through on the 38 (was this one of Dickens's 'Favourites', I wonder), in a primitive show of deference to the tortured souls thereabouts.
stephen | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 1:26 p.m. | #
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Thanks Elsie
NiC | Homepage | 19.08.05 - 3:46 p.m. | #
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