EPW042028 ENGLAND (1933). Lancaster Castle and environs, Lancaster, 1933

Lancaster prison’s female wing, one of the few remaining examples of the Panopticon design conceived by Samuel Bentham and promoted by Jeremy Bentham from the late 1700’s. The Panopticon principle is that a small number of supervisors can oversee a large amount of activity albeit in a factory, prison, hospital, asylum etc, by being positioned in a central location from which all activity is visible. ‘…the Female Penitentiary, designed by Joseph Gandy and built between 1818 and 1821, next to the Female Felons’Tower of 1792/3. The Female Penitentiary is a particularly interesting design for a prison, very different from the ‘Pentonville’ style of cells in two long rows facing an open area where prisoners can meet. This style of prison can be found in the two floors of A Wing of Lancaster Castle, the Male Penitentiary of the mid-1800s. The female Penitentiary, in contrast, comprises five floors, the basement for stores, ground floor for offices and hospital and above these four floors each with nine cells, these being arranged in a fan-shape.’ From LANCASTER CASTLE’S FEMALE PENITENTIARY, Lancaster Civic Vision Guide 118. Text – Gordon Clark. Published by Lancaster Civic Vision (2023). https://www.lancastercivicsociety.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Lancaster-Castles-Female-Penitentiary.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Glasson Dock branch curving off the main line. Access was controlled by Lancaster No.4 signal box.

Giant Axe then Lancaster Town now Lancaster City Football Club

LMS Tank loco on passenger train - ex LYR 2-4-2T?

Lancaster No 4 signalbox

Former Midland Railway (Electrified)