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Closure Of Dartmoor Prison Is Urged

... Closure Of Dartmoor Prison Is Urged REFERENCE TO ITS EVIL REPUTATION To Overcome ; Violence The only effective way to overcome violence at Dartmoor is to close the place down, and the sooner the better, urges a leader in the latest issue of The Prison ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1963
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2097 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

HE WANTS TO

... ITV adventure of the newly-promoted Detective-Inspector Baxter in Echo Four-Two will, he hopes, go towards buying Dartmoor Prison. Watkins, a London journalist, heads a syndicate which plans to turn the prison, due to close in five years, into a holiday ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1961
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

TERENCE RATTIGAN ILL

... at Oxford next Tuesday. Ghost Town Fear Of Dartmoor Village Prinerown. the village who has no map or compass. near Dartmoor Prison, does not know the topography. would become a ghost and has very limited means of I town if the prison were getting ...

Published: Tuesday 26 April 1960
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR ESCAPE

... DARTMOOR ESCAPE Norman Fenton. aged 28. escaped from an outside working party at Dartmoor! 'Prison this afternoon. He was sentenced at Leeds Assizes on March 4. 1963, to ,five years imprisonment for 'armed robbery and taking I away a motor vehicle. ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1964
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STILL FREE

... STILL FREE Henry Seymour Bramley. aged 39. who escaped from a Dartmoor Prison outside working party in thick fog on Tuesday, was still free this morning. The search switched yesterday to Saltash. Cornwall.' after reports that a farmhouse, had been broken ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1963
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 59 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

PICTURE CHECK AT PUB NEAR PRISON

... Photographs of a number of well-known London criminals were to-day being taken to the Forest Inn, at Hexworthy, near the Dartmoor prison, and shown to the landlord, Mr. Alfred Wise. It is thought that a man who is well known to Scotland Yard visited the prison ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1966
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HE WANTS TO BUY DARTMOOR

... ITV adventure of the newly-promoted Detective-Inspector Baxter in Echo Four-Two will, he hopes, go towards buying Dartmoor Prison. Watkins. a London journalist, heads a syndicate which plans to turn the prison, due to close in five years, into a holiday ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1961
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OPERATION ESCAPE

... alerted and would trigger off Operation Escape. a secret .plan on the lines of the escape plan used by the police at Dartmoor Prison. But with it all it would seem safe to forecast that some attempt at getting certain of the heavily guarded men to freedom ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1965
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR STAYS

... DARTMOOR STAYS Dartmoor Prison is not to be closed for at least three years. This was disclosed by the Home Secretary (Mr. Henry Brooke) when he visited Dartmoor to-day—the first Home Secretary to do so since Sir Herbert Samuel ,before the Dartmoor mutiny ...

Published: Monday 27 July 1964
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

FIREMEN FROM BRIGADES TO GAOL

... FIREMEN FROM BRIGADES TO GAOL Fire appliances from Princetown and Y elverton went to Dartmoor Prison to-day to join the prison fire party in fighting a blaze in the canvas shop, where mailbags are made. The fire brigade was called when a warder noticed ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1963
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 1 | Tags: none