Newgate: The Prison Wall That London Built Into Its Own Streets
Forgotten London
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For more than seven hundred years, London kept its darkest institution not on the edge of the city but in the middle of it. Newgate was a Roman gate that became a dungeon, a dungeon that became the most feared address in the English-speaking world, and a building that London burned, rebuilt, and finally absorbed into its own streets. This is the story of how a prison shaped a city's laws, its literature, and its idea of justice, and why, even now, London never quite tore it down.
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It was used to convey prisoners along it and some were even buried under the stones of Deadman's Ally
He was acquitted but the experience obviously broke him as he died 7 months later.
700 years time used custody location in london.
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Newgate: The Prison Wall That London Built Into Its Own Streets
Forgotten London
20,982 views
For more than seven hundred years, London kept its darkest institution not on the edge of the city but in the middle of it. Newgate was a Roman gate that became a dungeon, a dungeon that became the most feared address in the English-speaking world, and a building that London burned, rebuilt, and finally absorbed into its own streets. This is the story of how a prison shaped a city's laws, its literature, and its idea of justice, and why, even now, London never quite tore it down.
#london