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  • Old: Newington Gardens park. Britons largest prison used to be here.

  • Old: Newington Green park. Britons largest prison used to be here.

    For search purposes, this is actually Newington Gardens. Newington Green is north of the river.

    The block whose back is shown here fronts onto Bath Terrace, and the main entrance to Newington Gardens is on Harper Road.

    Amazingly, the memory of the prison is kept alive in Newington Gardens even today, with two large cages in which poor sinners perform demeaning physical rituals. @coventry_eagle was undoubtedly reminiscing wistfully about his own times of incarceration in this spot.

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