2-703-819 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Site of the Marshalsea Prison from the Churchyard of St. George's, Southwark', c1935. Marshalsea Prison on Borough High Street, Southwark, south London, was particularly known as a debtors' prison, and was made famous in the writings of Charles Dickens, whose father was sent there in 1824, when Dickens was 12. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]