Kitchen and inmates, Portland Prison, Dorset
A kitchen or cook-house at Portland Prison, Dorset. Inmates in arrow-patterned uniforms stand in front of a row of large steam-heated cooking coppers. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area
Picture No
10472802
Media ID
47528842
Size
5000px x 2946px
(2.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
circa early 20th century
