English: Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester (formerly Strangeways Prison) Strangeways Prison in Southall Street, Manchester was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1869. The fastest hanging on record took place here on 8th May 1951 when executioner Albert Pierrepoint executed James Inglis just seven seconds after leaving the condemned cell! Strangeways was also the scene of the UK's worst prison riot which took place between the 1st and the 25th of April 1990.
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Keith Williamson and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester (formerly Strangeways Prison) Strangeways Prison in Southall Street, Manchester was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1869. The fastest hanging on recor
File usage
No pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed).
Metadata
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.