HM Prison Reading to close, well it's on prime land after all! Options

[Andy Capp]

You will now have to go else where to visit your friends and family!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23958223

[Nothing Much]

You will now have to go else where to visit your friends and family!

Get the cameras out folks as it is a listed building, no doubt the central core will be developed
as desirable lofts!

Even Oscar Wilde didn't get many friends to visit (De Profundis)
HM Prison, Reading
Dear Bosie,
After long and fruitless waiting ..etc.............I would not like to think that I had passed through two long years of imprisonment
without ever having received a single line from you, or any news or message even, except such as gave me pain ..

The architect was of course that well known builder of prisons,lunatic asylums, workhouses...& errr my onetime home
George Gilbert Scott.
ce

[Nothing Much]

All wings have been refurbished and offer accommodation with integral sanitation, showers, hot water boiler and card phones. Prisoners have the opportunity to attend work, gym, education and offending behaviour courses and chapel.

From the blurb for Pentonville. Well known Monopoly destination. Sounds alright to me.
Also earmarked for closure and no doubt top priced flats! A short walk away as I type.
Close to St Pancras as well for the sophisticates in Lille . As also is HMP Holloway.
Maybe handy pour les Mamselles from Armentieres.

Sorry I have just started using emoticons... a bit childish, but fun.
ce

[motormad]

... NM I love you.

[Nothing Much]

Ooooh You are awful.
I did catch up with your chums on the VW forum, just interested, same as Exhausted.
Seemed to be about 'gay accessories for your bonnet'.
Or did I misunderstand.
ce

[motormad]

The only gay accessory for your bonnet would be those eye-lash thingies

[Simon Kirby]

Get the cameras out folks as it is a listed building, no doubt the central core will be developed
as desirable lofts!

Bet they'd be a bit pokey.

[Nothing Much]

Hardly enough room to swing a rat or a bowl of porridge

Amazing what can be done, but there have been some mistakes. Locally an old workhouse was turned
into a single homeless doss house for winos. That closed and after a makeover re-opened as a
cheap central hotel.... It still looked like a doss house and was then demolished for a Holiday Inn.
Not exactly a prime corner, but it is close to one of London's original Gastropubs down Farringdon Road.

In the new Kings Cross development an old warehouse had been scheduled as listed.
The facade was to be left unchanged. "There" Islington Council said."They have to keep the building now."
Lo and behold. The facade was propped up,the rest came down and a new build student accomodation rose from the dust.
Pokey with the facade attached a metre away. None of the student rooms matched the facades windows.
Some are devoid of natural light...... But they are all asleep during daylight anyway said a spokesthingy.

I can imagine the prison would be a bit harder to alter, although my daughter is happy in a rebuilt Victorian school.
ce

[Simon Kirby]

Hardly enough room to swing a rat or a bowl of porridge

[Simon Kirby]

This barracks in Devizes has been turned into flats. It's a lovely building really and they've done a reasonably nice job, although some of the new brickwork is poor.

[Andy Capp]

Bet they'd be a bit pokey.

Groan!

[Simon Kirby]

Groan!

I thank you.