Treadmill at HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Photograph taken late 19th century © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: bb90/14698

Kingston Prison opened in 1850. Like many prisons in the 19th century, HMP Kingston adopted the policy of hard labour on unproductive tasks. Those forced to work the treadmill or tread wheel were forced to climb 8,640 feet in 6 hours.

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Portsmouth Portsmouth

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The village stocks with four ankle holes for the punishment of petty crime and misdemeanor in the village. Although probably used from the Anglo-Saxon period, a statute of 1351 made it law for every township to provide and maintain a set of stocks.

Treadmill at HMP Kingston, Portsmouth, Hampshire

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