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Ruthin Gaol
46 Clwyd Street, Ruthin, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1HP, WalesAbout
Explore Ruthin Gaol - one of North Wales' most fascinating buildings. From 1654 to 1916 thousands of prisoners - men, women and children, innocent and guilty passed through its gates. Now it's your turn! Find out what prison life in the 19th Century was really like: - visit the 'Pentoville' cell block - see how the prisoners lived their daily lives: what they ate, how they worked and the punishment they suffered - explore the cells - including the punishment, dark and condemned cell - find out about the 'Welsh Houdini' and William Hughes - the last person hanged at the Goal - learn about how how the prison worked - its ingenious Victorian heating, ventilation and communication systems, the kitchen, bread ovens and well and spy-holes - bring yourself up to date - from wartime munitions factory to its present imaginative conversion
