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Derby Prison Cemetery

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Location	:	Derby, Derby Unitary Authority, England
Description	:	Derby did not have a gaol until 1652 when the Cornmarket Gaol was erected in the center of the town. Prior to that, Derbyshire's criminals were taken to Nottingham Castle. Nothing of the Cornmarket Gaol remains today, the site now completely pedestrianized, which was part of the old A6 through road, and it was decided that a building sited in a less busy area would be better so plans were made to relocate the Gaol to Nuns Green, three-quarters of a mile west of the town. Nuns Green ran alongside and to the north of the superbly maintained Friar Gate,... Read More	Derby did not have a gaol until 1652 when the Cornmarket Gaol was erected in the center of the town. Prior to that, Derbyshire's criminals were taken to Nottingham Castle. Nothing of the Cornmarket Gaol remains today, the site now completely pedestrianized, which was part of the old A6 through road, and it was decided that a building sited in a less busy area would be better so plans were made to relocate the Gaol to Nuns Green, three-quarters of a mile west of the town. Nuns Green ran alongside and to the north of the superbly maintained Friar Gate, one side of which has today virtually avoided the ravages of time. Within just over half a mile, three of Derby's gaols were located in what is now known as the Friar Gate Conservation Area. Nuns Green had been one of the traditional execution places in Derby, various substantial trees being used before a tricorn wooden gallows dispatched victims. By 1756, Nuns Green Gaol had been erected, mostly from stone from the Cornmarket Gaol, to house 29 prisoners, but this was extended as time went on. As Friar Gate rapidly became ‘the' place to live while visiting Derby, the gentry's town houses went up alongside Nuns Green and the old gaol was incorporated into the street, now known as Friar Gate Gaol. There were 58 hangings here between 1756 and 1825. By 1843 a much grander building was in use as a gaol in Vernon Street, just south of Friar Gate and the old gaol only lasted another three years. It later became the Howard Hotel and various other commercial uses before being maintained and today is part of a museum of Derby gaols below street level in the old building at 50-51 Friar Gate. In 1886, Vernon Street Gaol was renamed HMP Derby and lasted until 1919 when demolition of most of the building took place. Until 1929, the remaining part of the prison was used as a military prison and by 1930 the area behind the frontage had been converted into a greyhound stadium which lasted until the 7th of December 1988. Today the site contains offices and apartment buildings with the words VERNON GATE worked into the brickwork above the archway. (John Grainger)

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