Shrewsbury Prison
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Shrewsbury Prison by Eirian Evans as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Eirian Evans Taken: 1 Aug 2008
There has been a prison on the site since 1793, but the present prison was built in 1877.