Whitecross Debtors Prison - Whitecross Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.363 W 000° 05.561
30U E 701685 N 5711962
This damaged and poor quality English Hedonists blue plaque, to Whitecross Debtors Prison, is attached to a building on the north east side of Whitecross Street at the junction with Dufferin Street.
Waymark Code: WMN1YM
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/10/2014
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Wikipedia has an article about Whitecross Street in which the prison is briefly mentioned. It tells us:
Whitecross Street Prison was a debtors' prison built 1813-15 to ease overcrowding at Newgate Prison. It had a capacity of 400 prisoners. It closed in 1870, when all of the prisoners were transferred to the newly built Holloway Prison.
