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Some lock-ups also had stocks, ducking stools, pillories, or pinfolds, alongside them and the origins of the 18th-century village lock-up evolved from much earlier examples of holding cells and devices. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to a round-house as a place of detention for arrested persons and dates its first written usage to 1589.
The building was constructed in 1834 as the village lock-up, for the temporary detention of people. The village's animal pound was in poor condition, so a new pound was constructed, adjoining the lock-up. The lock-up fell out of use in the 1890s, after a police station was constructed in nearby Filey. [1] [2] The building was grade II listed in ...
The parish contains the village of Hunmanby, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, and the others include a church, a memorial in the churchyard, a market cross, farmhouses and farm buildings, an animal pound , a village lock-up , a public house, a war memorial and a ...
The lock-up (or roundhouse) in Smisby, Derbyshire, England, is a village lock-up dating from the late 18th century. Such lock-ups were fairly common in England at that time and were used to hold miscreants, often drunkards, or other low-level offenders awaiting transportation to the local assizes, for short periods of time.
Wavertree Lock-up is an 18th-century grade II listed village lock-up located in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. 53°23′54″N 2°54′52″W / 53.3983°N 2.9144°W / 53.3983; -2.9144 ( Wavertree Lock-up, Liverpool
Pardon the dust. Workers are unpacking over 200 years of local history for a new museum downtown. The Akron History Center at 172 S. Main St. is a blur of activity. Crews are busy installing 20 ...
Everton Lock-Up, sometimes referenced by one of its nicknames such as Prince Rupert's Tower or Prince Rupert's Castle, is a village lock-up located on Everton Brow in Everton, Liverpool. The 18th-century structure is one of two Georgian lock-ups that still survive in Liverpool ; the other is in Wavertree .
The village lock-up and pound were rebuilt in the late 18th century. The lock-up is in sandstone, with an eaves band and a pyramidal tile roof. It is small with a square plan, and is about 12 feet (3.7 m) high. It contains a doorway with an inscribed plaque on the west front, and two small windows in the south front.