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Staff the County Goal, Caernarfon, c.1900
  • This photograph shows the interior and staff of the county gaol at Montgomery. It was used to incarcerate lawbreakers from the county between 1832 and 1878. Some of those involved in the famous Chartist riots at Llanidloes in 1839 were held here.
Interior of Montgomery county gaol, c. 1875
Warden's Office at Ruthin Gaol, Denbighshire [image 1 of 2]
'History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland', by William Cobbet, 1829, flyleaf with W. E. Gladstone's comments [image 2 of 2]
Warden's Office at Ruthin Gaol, Denbighshire [image 2 of 2]