Title

Queen's Bench Prison, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1879. Artist: John Crowther

Caption

Queen's Bench Prison, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, 1879. The prison, formerly a debtors' prison, closed in 1880.

Date

1879

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Reference

HRM19B02_282

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

13,4Mb (508,3Kb) / 8,9in x 5,9in / 2667 x 1759 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior road building buildings London England street country law crime British English color colour lane avenue prison location Victorian century imprisonment Britain concept outside punishment grim law and order metaphor penitentiary 19th century Southwark nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Borough High Street TGN watercolour John Crowther Queen's Bench Prison Crowther John