Kirkdale Jail

[taffy]

A relative was chaplain at Kirkdale Gaol in the 19th C. No doubt he accompanied the murderer you mentioned to his execution. Interestingly, only if the prisoner admitted his guilt would be get his last Holy Communion before execution. Attached is a photo of Kirkdale Gaol taken from The Lost Villages of Liverpool by Derek Whale and originally form the Liverpool City Engineer's Collection at the Liverpool Record Office. Also a interesting drawing of the chapel at Kirkdale Gaol where the prisoners sat not in pews but enclosed boxes in the chapel. I forget where this image came from.