There was a need for a gaol in Kingston to confine felons during the Assizes and Quarter Sessions. The Stockhouse, the responsibility of Kingston Corporation, was used for this purpose until around 1801. Then, until 1855 part of the House of Correction, for which the County of Surrey was responsible, was used to confine felons for trial. A purpose-built House of Detention, adjacent to the Assize Courts, was then established by Kingston Corporation. This was last used to confine felons at the Midsummer Quarter Sessions held on 1 July 1890.
Noel Baddow Pope was born in Toxteth, a sub-district of Liverpool, on Christmas Eve, 1909. He moved with his widowed mother to Surbiton before 1926.
MAYOR JOHN WILLIAMS & KINGSTON’S FAIRFIELD. A TRIBUTE TO JUNE SAMPSON, LOCAL HISTORIAN & JOURNALIST.
Charles Lock Luck an architect, born in 1833 at the Paragon, Blackheath, lived in Surbiton from 1860-1890.
The Kingston upon Thames Debtors’ Prison existed from 1829-1852 and was situated in what is today Bath Passage.
