apparently one of my distant relatives was hung at the galleries of justice. thomas cholerton for slitting his girlfriends throat.
Shire Hall Nottingham #2
www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk
A little History...
The first mention of the County Gaol is in association with the King's Hall and comes in a line from Henry VIs Great Charter of 1449.
In the will of Ralph Law, gaoler of the County Gaol Nottingham, dated 21 March 1609-1610 reference is made to various parts of the gaol. Several rooms are mentioned by name: 'the Geipsies chamber', 'the Abbot's chamber', 'maides chamber' and 'the nether hall in the King's gaole'.
An order was made on 4th October, 1613 to collect £4.3s.4d for 'reaire of the gaole'. Sometime about 1618 a new Gaol was built behind the old Hall overlooking Narrow Marsh.
Extensive building and rebuilding of the Hall was done from 1833 onwards to what we can see today..
A building has been here though remember from much earlier days... with the original sandstone cells still to be seen today including the recently discovered 'the pit of the forgotton', those sad souls were left to starve to death their souls and bodies being forgotten forever........................
Part of a original prison door and bars can bee seen here, with quite a modern clean (compared to a tin) in the centre
A punishment triangle, the inmate was strapped to this and flogged.
A typical cell, the inmate was required to perform a usless task of turning the crank...
There was 3 systems as follows..
A. TURN 14,500 & PICK 13oz OF OAKUM PER DAY.
B. TURN 12,500 TIMES PER DAY & PICK 6oz OAKUM PER DAY
C. TURN 10,500 PER DAY.
In Nottingham this was the first waking task of many prisioners before breakfast, and this carried on all day.
Orginal shackles
If the crank was not used, the treadmill took it's place.
Again this served no purpose at all.
A brave muse of the justice system
Judges wig with the black cloth covering... the sentance of death!
The Hangmans rope is shown on the right, notice the bottom of the noose... this is to stop chafing. Ironic really!
If the body was not given to the surgeons for dissection, a burial record was made. Many bodies lay under the exercise yard - to be forgotton.
To the left middle of the display is a model of the gallows
The bottle of Whisky, the condemed took a nice big swig and the name of the person went in the bottle on a sheet of paper. How many names went into one bottle? If it was my situation there would just be my name!
This is the Hangmans trunk, with all of his weights, measures and of course the noose.
This proceeded the Hangman in a sealed trunk by train, the day before the execution.
Half of the fee was paid on the day, the other half through the post around a week after.
If you were lucky you were buried in one of these, lucky in the fact your body was not used for medical dissection
No 196 Burial Certificate & a coffin piece of William Joyce
Hair cut anyone? Maybe a close shave?
A prison Barbers chair - called Sweeney Todd
Police cape worn in 1965 by
PC Charles John Cook.
He was a escort officer on the 5th December 1966 in the famous case that was held at Shire Hall.
That of Buster Edwards one of the Great Train Robbers! he was given 15 years
Gibbet usually refers to a gallows-type structure from which the dead bodies of executed criminals were hung on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals.In some cases, the bodies would be left until their clothes rotted or even until the bodies were almost completely decomposed, after which the bones would be scattered.
Rare orginal Gibbet
Are you enjoying this introduction, do you want to see more?????? More to come soon..............
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(Posted on 2009-08-16 20:41:00 by )
yes so was mine he hunts the place his name was william saville i done lots of reseach about him