Northgate Gaol

The City Gaol was housed in the old Northgate, and is now a private residence. Prisoners were held in dungeons cut deep into the sandstone below the city wall. There were no windows in some dungeons and the only air the prisoners got was by pipe, which could be blocked from outside, if they had enemies. If you look carefully in the second photo below, you can see the blocked airholes in the top left.

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