Whitecross blue plaque Debtors Prison
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# Whitecross Street Prison Standing on Whitecross Street in the shadow of modern London, you're standing where one of Georgian England's most peculiar acts of charity unfolded each Christmas Day for nearly sixty years. From 1813 to 1870, this very location housed the Whitecross Street Debtors Priso...
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Whitecross Street, EC2
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Whitecross Debtors Prison 1813 - 1870 warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son the Duke of St. Albans, to lay out £20 a year to release poor debtors out of prison, and this sum was distributed every Christmas Day to the inmates of Whitecross Street Prison.