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Sunday, January 19, 2020
Shrewsbury Prison from above, 1927
As well as the town's prison, this also shows the Severn and Shrewsbury railway station.
The poet Housman adds:
There sleeps in Shrewsbury jail to-night, Or wakes, as may betide, A better lad, if things went right, Than most that sleep outside.
3 comments:
David Walsh
said...
I remember once waiting for a train, looking up at the front curtain walls of the prison, and seeing a bust of Jeremy Bentham staring down at me.
3 comments:
I remember once waiting for a train, looking up at the front curtain walls of the prison, and seeing a bust of Jeremy Bentham staring down at me.
I believe the bust is of John Howard, the prison reformer after whom the popular league is named.
Wonder ow I since altered it to Bentham ? Howard, was / is preferable
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