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Published: Saturday 20 March 1999
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ON THIS DAY:

... @ 1809 Dartmoor Prison at Princetown was opened. It was built originally to house French prisoners of war but from 1850 was used for convicts. @ 1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest was held at Lugano, and was won by Switzerland, the host country. @ ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Without his walls

... Without his walls THERE is a double reason for the return of Mr John May, governor of Dartmoor Prison, to Canterbury today (Friday) to help celebrate the University's silver jubilee. One of its first 500 students, he came in 1965 to study English and ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1990
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

OUTONAILHOUSE ROCK

... OUTONAILHOUSE ROCK A BAND of jailhouse rockers is being let out of Dartmoor prison to go on tour. By GEOFFREY LAKEMAN It's the first time the Home Office has given permission for prison musicians to go on the road. But the five-piece hard rock outfit ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1994
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 20 March 1999
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 162 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... as ~~~ • „~ t ~~?a 1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to house French prisoners of war. From 1850 it was used for convicts. 1862 London's Westminster Bridge opened. 1895 The first stage knighthood was conferred, on Sir Henry Irving. • 1916 Conscription began ...

Published: Monday 24 May 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

PRIME MINISTER FACES MAROS OF

... gold isc of one of her albums. > ee hd ee ee’ ational heritage _ spokes- voman Baroness on attended a rock concert n Dartmoor prison given by a band mtirely of inmates. Yester- lay Mr Brooke joined pop eterans The Searchers and he Swinging Blue Jeans ...

Published: Monday 27 June 1994
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IN CHARACTER ON THIS DAY

... to last for four years more than the country's longest serving King, George 111, dying at the age of 81. The infamous Dartmoor Prison opened on this day in 1809, originally as a prisoner of war camp, housing Frenchmen captured in the Napoleonic Wars for ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1990
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... mysterious death of a twenfieth century icon. BBCI, 10.30-11.55 pm Network First An exclusive report on conditions inside Dartmoor prison, once condemned as a ‘penal dustbin’. ed o (f (g ) A . /“ \ i A R Y il b Icon: Marilyn Monroe, BBCI, 10.30 pm ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 105 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

is in the air – and on the shelves

... launched on Sunday at Waterstone's bookshop, in Broad Street, central Reading. Mr Powls, who was once the governor of Dartmoor Prison, said: My aim is to deal with the timeless, poignant and the beautiful and with meanings that everyone can feel and has ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1999
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ON THIS DAY

... their honeymoon in the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, with their famous bed-in for peace protest. The foundation stones of Dartmoor Prison were laid in 1806. The land it is built upon is nowadays owned by Prince Charles, along with such other sites as the Oval ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1990
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 125 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWS IN neIEE

... Jailhouse rock THE Barron Knights, who had a string of successes pu%lg hit songs in the 1960 s and , will play for inmates at Dartmoor prison as part of a British tour. Dream sunk A FAMILY’S dream to live on a boat was shattered when the back end of the vessel ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1995
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: 15 | Tags: none