2-699-199 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Giltspur Street Compter, 1840', (c1872). Giltspur Street Compter in London was 'a debtors' prison and house of correction...it was used as a place of imprisonment for debtors...The Compter was a dirty and appropriately convictlooking edifice. It was pulled down in 1855.' From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]