Catalogue description RECORDS OF HM PRISON, PRESTON

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Title: RECORDS OF HM PRISON, PRESTON
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Date: 1248-1974
Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

HM Prison Preston
Physical description: 61 files
Subjects:
  • Preston, Lancashire
Administrative / biographical background:

Preston's first House of Correction was opened in 1618 at the former Greyfriar's Convent between Lower Pitt Street and Ladywell Street. In 1790 the operation moved to a custonm built prison at the present site, designed by William Blackburn. By the late 19th Century it was operated as a Crown prisonserving a large part of the County, Although the prison closed in 1931, it was reopened during the Second World War as a military prison, and in 1948 returned to use as a civilian prison.
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