Old London Town. Newgate. One of London’s oldest prisons. Public hangings in the street after they stopped the hangings at Tyburn. A darker view into London’s history... #london #oldlondon | The Jack the Ripper Experience

Newgate Prison was London’s most iconic prison until the beginning of the 20th century with Holloway Prison also being very well known after becoming female only from 1902, housing hundreds of suffragettes in the early 20th century. Our Executions exhibition holds an exterior door from Newgate Prison and an interior cell door from Holloway Prison. This door from Newgate Prison was also known as the Debtors Door and would have been the last door that the condemned would walk through before being

3.5K views · 852 reactions | This painting depicts the last moments...