Sujet
Town Bridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, c1955. Creator: Arthur Charles Kirby Ware.
Légende
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
HRM26A36_009
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
80.4Mo (4.4Mo) / 51.1cm x 39.4cm / 6040 x 4653 (300dpi)