DEMOLITION OF A FAMOUS BUILDING.
, * — i At last, after many year*' negotiation between, the London City Corporation and j the Government, tihe Old Bailey Sessions I Hcuse is about to disappear. The present building, from which so many, unihappy persons have been sent to the scaffold or consigned to a living tomb, was erected in 1785, tbe previous courthouse having been ] destroyed in the Gordon Riots five years before. It cost the Corporation, together with the re-building of Newgate, £90,000. .In tho old court, a judge, the Lord Mayor, and several members of the Bar, and jury, were killed by gaol fever, and rue used to be placed about the court to ward' eff infection. . A remims©epoe< of these evil days is to be found in the sweet herbs which are strewn about the Guildhall on the occasion of certain civic elections.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7415, 29 May 1902, Page 1
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