Tothill Fields Prison

Tothill Fields Prison, or Tothill Fields Bridewell, was a prison in the City of Westminster (London, England) from 1618 to 1884. The prison was expanded and relocated to Victoria Street and Vauxhall Bridge Road in 1834.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition

Phase 1

A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood. (Volume 4): "I allude to beggars by profession, who prefer a life of mendicancy to any other. There are among them sailors, whose largest voyage has been to Tothill Fields prison, or to Gravesend on a pleasure trip. Cripples with their arms in slings, or feet, swathed in blood-stained rags, swollen to double the size, who may be seen dancing when in their lodging at their evening revels. You may see poor Irish with from five to thirty sovereigns in a bag hung round their necks or in the waistband of their trousers; women who carry hired babes, or it may be a bundle of clothing resembling a child, on their back and breast, and other such-like impostors."

Phase 2

 Statement of a Beggar. (Volume 1)

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Latitude: 51.496434023620
Longitude: -0.142457485199