That year, novelist Charles Dickens visited Newgate Prison, where the turnkey told Dickens that James and John were “dead man”. James Pratt’s wife, Elizabeth, stood by him to the very end, and even ...

It was established in 1188, under the reign of King Henry II. What was constructed out of a group of cells housed in London’s city walls above the ‘New Gate’ gatehouse soon became known as a place of ...