TweetIn my opinion, you can never have enough museums that focus on the criminal heritage of England. Gloucestershire is already fortunate, then, to have The Old Prison at Northleach (as regular readers will know, this is one of my favourite … Continue reading
TweetLast week, I visited the Met Police Heritage Centre in West Brompton, London, as part of the research for a magazine feature I’m writing at the moment. Apart from anything, it’s a fantastic place to visit if you’re in the … Continue reading
Tweet Cotswold TV covered a recent open day at Northleach’s Old Prison, designed to help Friends of the Cotswolds, Cotswold District Council’s preferred bidder to take over the site, raise money for the cause. I had wanted to attend this … Continue reading
TweetA humorous tale from the crime reports of the Oxford Journal, which although it doesn’t involve a Cotswold native, does involve a Cotswold house of correction! This piece shows how our ancestors were often fined for misdemeanours – but if … Continue reading
TweetThe Rural Life Collection is housed behind the old Northleach Prison on the Fosseway, and is a hidden gem of a museum. It is an open-air exhibition of historic agricultural vehicles – waggons, carts and caravans – from Gloucestershire. The … Continue reading
TweetSometimes, a random read of old newspapers can send you off on research that ends up going in an unexpected direction. That’s what happened when I chanced upon an inquest report in an 1871 edition of Jackson’s Oxford Journal. The … Continue reading
