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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Date 12 September 2013

Event ID 964316

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964316

The new town prison for Stirling was designed by Thomas Browne, Scotland's leading prisoner designer, and was opened on 11 November 1847. In the 1880s it was possible to transport prisoners further by rail and fewer, larger prisons were needed. The Army took over Stirling Prison as the main detention barracks for Scotland. The Army retained the building until 1935.

During the First World War there was a small specialist Venereal Disease unit for infected inmates.

Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 12 September 2013.

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