Talk:Coldbath Fields Prison

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation of articles regarding specific prisons here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 01:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've sorted out the basics of this article. If anyone wants to really make a go of it, the 50+ pages in Mayhew & Binney would make a really easy place to start.  I know the images go down too far at the moment, but I figured that it should be easy to expand the text that far... Le Deluge (talk) 01:36, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Coldbath Closure?
I know several sources say Coldbath closed in 1877, but there is an entry, complete with list of prisoners, for Coldbath in the 1881 census--Gavinevans (talk) 17:31, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Political Meeting violently dispersed, 1833
A public meeting of the London Union took place in Coldbath Fields, on the 13th May 1833. About 1000 persons present.

Lord Melbourne, (the Home Secretary) and the two "Colonels" of the New Police, Rowan and Mayne, organised its violent dispersal.

A body of the new police, upwards in number (all the journals agree) of Three Thousand, marched in military array to the spot, and commenced a most atrocious attack upon the people, knocking down, and in some instances grievously wounding all before them.

The ferocity of the attack was regarded as comparable to the Peterloo Massacre.

78.144.93.208 (talk) 22:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)