Sujet

Village lockup on Town Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, c1955. Creator: Arthur Charles Kirby Ware.

Légende

Village lockup on Town Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, c1955. View of the bridge over the river Avon, showing the village lockup (small domed building), which was originally a chapel. A village lock-up is a historic building once used for the temporary detention of people in England and Wales, mostly where official prisons or criminal courts were beyond easy walking distance. Lockups were often used for the confinement of drunks, who were usually released the next day, or to hold people being brought before the local magistrate. The archetypal form comprises a small room with a single door and a narrow slit window, grating or holes. Most lock-ups feature a tiled or stone-built dome or spire as a roof and are built from brick, stone or timber.

Date

1955

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ware in the World

Notre référence

HRM26A35_397

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

80.2Mo (4.8Mo) / 50.7cm x 39.6cm / 5994 x 4675 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel river building England religious architecture religion law crime bridge bridges British geography color structure chapel Wiltshire prison century Britain concept Avon River Avon United Kingdom tourist attraction fifties 1950s penitentiary Colour listed 20th century Bradford-on-Avon tourism decade geographical feature lock-up TGN photograph landscape Listed Building Town Bridge ACK Ware Ware in the World Arthur Charles Kirby Ware Ware Arthur Charles Kirby Ware ACK Ware A.C.K. A.C.K. Ware A C K Ware Ware A C K Jock Ware Ware Jock