Notorious Victorian prison’s inmates possess included Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst,Myra Hindley and Ruth EllisThe announcement that the site of Holloway prison is to be sold to become a chic London housing address would possess astounded generations of women incarcerated there.
Despite repeated alteration and rebuilding in the 163 years since it opened, so that barely a trace of the original architecture survives, or Holloway was still described in the most recent report by the prison inspectorate as having “a fearsome reputation”.
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Source: theguardian.com