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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]this is all I've found on the lock up and round house 1854 SMALLEY LOCKUP THE LOCK-UP SMALLEY Ilkeston Pioneer A respected correspondent favoured us in our last issue with a paragraph describing the clean and orderly state of the Smalley LOCK- UP. If such things must be, it is gratifying to learn that they are well conducted. But we own we much rather learn that the rural hamlet of Smalley, and the locality of which it is the magisterial centre, had no need for the erection of a miniature house of correction, than to learn that any such odious looking edifice obtruded its unsightly architecture among the pleasant farmsteads and cosy cottages of Smalley. If Smalley itself with the advantages of a church, and chapels, a resident minister, and a resident and respected magistrate, require the erection of a prison in this the 19th century, it would be a sad libel, we think, on the present generation – but a very high compliment to “the rude forefathers of the hamlet” who dispensed with a ROUND - HOUSE, when they had none of the salutary checks on evil doing which modern Smalley happily enjoys. But we well know Smalley itself requires no such fortress. It merely obtains the questionable honour from the fact of its being the place for holding the Petty Sessions. For our part we utterly abominate the sight of these petty prison-houses obtruding as they do their very significant faces on the village green. We have the same aversion the stocks. We lately attended a parish meeting, held in order to decide on the re-erection of a worn out pair of these now exploded nuisances. The sapient parish officers were about to incur a charge of some four or five pounds, when we quietly asked whether the stocks were intended for use or ornament? If for use, we should like some evidence of the times they had been used within the last half-century. If for ornament, we humbly submitted that an uglier sight, and one more loudly proclaiming our own disorderlies, than a pair of stocks could not well be imagined. We carried the day. We saved four pounds – and everybody acknowledges how the approach to the church steps is improved by the removal of “the wooden stockings” We always thought the last English village in which a round house would be erected, or a pair of stocks tolerated, would be –otham – as we suppose the last persons that wore the “stockings” were Hudibras and Muddiman. We have another objection to a “Lock up – a human being should not be confined in an building in which there is not a human being to take care of him. The Smalley “cell” may be a very clean, snug, little hole, but it is not a place where a man should be immured on a cold winter night, or indeed on any night. If the person charged with any offences has been before the magistrate, the county gaol in his proper lodging house. If untried, let him be in the constable’s safe custody by an English fireside. The Habeas Corpus Act is often violated in these round houses. It is astonishing that rural places should plume themselves on the erection of such relics of a barbarous age, - and say, “Lo, we are big folks now – we’ve got a prison!” Had Mapperley had a round – house, we are afraid the hapless plunderer of the Mapperley pale would have had, at least, one bad night’s lodging, while all the little urchins and idlers of the place would have serenaded her! If there was any truth in the opinion that these lock-ups were really “a terror to evil doers” we should think their erection “a praise to them that do well” and these remarks uncalled for. Experience shows that they are not. Indeed we should as soon think of reviving the ducking stool, as the stocks, or the lock up, in this latter half of the 19th century. We make these observations in no captious spirit, but from an earnest desire for an onward instead of retrograde movement in our social state, and from a conviction that there are now influences at work which will, we trust, not only prevent the necessity of the “county rate” being expanded in the erection of little bastilles, but also in the building and enlargement of monster county prisons. Jenny[/quote]
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replied on: 6/13/2005 3:15:01 PM

this is all I've found on the lock up and round house

1854 SMALLEY LOCKUP
THE LOCK-UP SMALLEY
Ilkeston Pioneer
A respected correspondent favoured us in our last issue with a paragraph describing the clean and orderly state of the Smalley LOCK- UP. If such things must be, it is gratifying to learn that they are well conducted. But we own we much rather learn that the rural hamlet of Smalley, and the locality of which it is the magisterial centre, had no need for the erection of a miniature house of correction, than to learn that any such odious looking edifice obtruded its unsightly architecture among the pleasant farmsteads and cosy cottages of Smalley. If Smalley itself with the advantages of a church, and chapels, a resident minister, and a resident and respected magistrate, require the erection of a prison in this the 19th century, it would be a sad libel, we think, on the present generation – but a very high compliment to “the rude forefathers of the hamlet” who dispensed with a ROUND - HOUSE, when they had none of the salutary checks on evil doing which modern Smalley happily enjoys. But we well know Smalley itself requires no such fortress. It merely obtains the questionable honour from the fact of its being the place for holding the Petty Sessions. For our part we utterly abominate the sight of these petty prison-houses obtruding as they do their very significant faces on the village green. We have the same aversion the stocks. We lately attended a parish meeting, held in order to decide on the re-erection of a worn out pair of these now exploded nuisances. The sapient parish officers were about to incur a charge of some four or five pounds, when we quietly asked whether the stocks were intended for use or ornament? If for use, we should like some evidence of the times they had been used within the last half-century. If for ornament, we humbly submitted that an uglier sight, and one more loudly proclaiming our own disorderlies, than a pair of stocks could not well be imagined. We carried the day. We saved four pounds – and everybody acknowledges how the approach to the church steps is improved by the removal of “the wooden stockings” We always thought the last English village in which a round house would be erected, or a pair of stocks tolerated, would be –otham – as we suppose the last persons that wore the “stockings” were Hudibras and Muddiman. We have another objection to a “Lock up – a human being should not be confined in an building in which there is not a human being to take care of him. The Smalley “cell” may be a very clean, snug, little hole, but it is not a place where a man should be immured on a cold winter night, or indeed on any night. If the person charged with any offences has been before the magistrate, the county gaol in his proper lodging house. If untried, let him be in the constable’s safe custody by an English fireside. The Habeas Corpus Act is often violated in these round houses. It is astonishing that rural places should plume themselves on the erection of such relics of a barbarous age, - and say, “Lo, we are big folks now – we’ve got a prison!” Had Mapperley had a round – house, we are afraid the hapless plunderer of the Mapperley pale would have had, at least, one bad night’s lodging, while all the little urchins and idlers of the place would have serenaded her! If there was any truth in the opinion that these lock-ups were really “a terror to evil doers” we should think their erection “a praise to them that do well” and these remarks uncalled for. Experience shows that they are not. Indeed we should as soon think of reviving the ducking stool, as the stocks, or the lock up, in this latter half of the 19th century.
We make these observations in no captious spirit, but from an earnest desire for an onward instead of retrograde movement in our social state, and from a conviction that there are now influences at work which will, we trust, not only prevent the necessity of the “county rate” being expanded in the erection of little bastilles, but also in the building and enlargement of monster county prisons.
Jenny

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