2-699-374 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The King's Bench, Southwark, in 1830', (c1878). The King's Bench Prison in south London dated back to medieval times. It was used as a debtors' prison until the practice was abolished in the 1860s. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]