The Secrets of a UK Prison Lock Up | I did NOT expect what I found!
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this video, join me as I uncover the hidden secrets of the infamous Steelhouse Lane Lock Up in Birmingham, UK. Hidden in plain sight this lock up has over 100 years of history and is also the place where the Peaky Blinders (and my Great Grandfather) were locked up and photographed. From petty drunks to murderers, male and female inmates, the halls of this place echo with the stories of the people who have passed through and I found it a profound and moving experience. Only closed in 2016, it was left as it was when it was closed, and I think is as close as you can get to walking around a Victorian prison & lock up complex in the UK without actually being an inmate or a guard.
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The Lock up at West Midlands Police Museum is open to the public Wednesday - Saturdays and is run by volunteers, many of whom are retired from The Service. The entrance fee at time of publication is £10 - this is a donation used to keep the museum open. Tickets can be booked in advance on the website : museum.west-mi... - please note it is occasionally closed for functions, school groups or group bookings so check before you go, these dates were clearly listed.
As always this video was filmed, edited and scripted by me, all opinions are my own, research was done on my own little laptop and I paid for my entrance.
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WOW...I dont know how i came across your youtube video, but, i sure am glad i did..😊
My 1st Video i watched was about the back to back houses, then the prefabs and now the prison...
I have always bern fascinated by all of these, i just love the way people used to live way back, how they survived ❤️
I was supposed to go to sleep 2 hours ago as i have a very hectic day Tommorow going to work and looking after my grandson, but, im hooked 😂
Thank you so much, you describe everything so well xx
Keep up the good work..
Dawn, I hope you got a good sleep in the end, this is what I do too! I start researching and it’s 5 hours later and I’m going to be shattered 😅 thanks for your lovely words x
My 2x great uncle, Henry Lightfoot, spent time here. He was the first man to be named a "Peaky Blinder" by the press ( He's literally behind you on the information board! 14:38). It's so scary but he actually looks identical my Dad and my little lad!
That is AMAZING!! Ours looks like a couple of my cousins - it's really strange isn't it? It was NEVER talked about in our family and I kind of dug it up - which hasn't been well received by everyone .. but that's history for you, you have to expect a few black sheep in the archives.
I’m so glad this building was saved,we must keep our history alive
Me too. It’s amazing isn’t it?
Love your videos. I went on a ghost hunt in this prison in Dec 23. It was an all night lock in. So I can actually say I have spent the night in a cell. Lol
Braver woman than me!! There's a similar experience in Shrewsbury Prison and I'm always looking but I KNOW I would absolutely c*ap myself and get myself into all sorts of upset!! haha
@@throughlucyslens not been on that one yet but it's on my to do list
@@sharonwoodward7741 Braver woman than me! They carried out capital there didn't they so I would be bricking it hearing ropes creaking - I'm so dramatic!
@@throughlucyslens been on many ghost hunts. Some places a few times. Been to the coffin works in Bham too. I recommend a visit.
That on my list actually!
Aside from it being a grim place, I admire old world architecture, especially the iron work inside 😍
100% it's actually quite beautiful with the big glass roof!
You give so much more than 'dry facts' and that's what makes your videos so interesting to watch. For example your spontaneous comments when you walk through the sites you visit or when something happens or your feelings about something. That al together gives a very honest, authentic report and not a 'scripted' one. Thank you!
Thank you. I don’t have an off switch. I just say what I feel. These places evoke such feelings in me I can’t keep it in.
@@throughlucyslens don't lose that! 😀Your spontaneous stile fits the topics you cover in my opinion. I like to 'see' the humans behind the history and not only the history itself. In that way you can relate to it more although it happend many years ago.
@@Aethelu1975 Totally agree. I am working on some stuff with some really difficult stories, and I think it would be impossible to stay robotic when thinking of real peoples lives!
Capital punishment & Corperal punishment are two totally different things.
This is a wonderful video. I love that your Great Great Grandad was featured too! Times were hard back then. He certainly has a very empathic Great Great Granddaughter anyway!
There’s one in every family isn’t there .. the rat bag 😅
22.43 - I think one at the time was the safe option if you cleaned yourself with Imperial Leather and dropped it on the floor - LOL !
Excellent stuff. Thank you. I confess, the moment you mentioned "...a little bit haunted..." I considered switching off. Such nonsense is for children and the gullible. Nevertheless, I am glad I stuck with this fascinating episode. My home (Built to accommodate Mill Workers in the C19th) has seen countless passings and several self endings over the decades. Not one of them has so much as rattled a chain, closed a door, or tampered with the thermostat.
I thoroughly enjoy this series. thank you so much for bringing the past to life. Your teaching skills shine brightly.
Glad you stuck with it and enjoyed it Tom ❤️ might mention it a few times as I'm kind of interested in it - but in a passing of time way not Jacob Marley 😂
@@throughlucyslens No worries. If it gives you pleasure, no one minds.
My bother lost his wife and children in a house fire. It broke him. As I handled his estate I discovered he had spent thousands on seances and readings, trying to find relief from his pain.. I believe that ghost stories only act to give validity to the charlatans who exploit the bereaved and vulnerable. Stay safe and hold onto your cash. Much love and best wishes
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The showers were the most haunted place I found. The feeling we got and the noises from them during the early hours were very unnerving
You know I don't think I would have the bottle Sharon. I don't know why but I felt really uneasy and shaky the whole time I was there, I am a real empath though so I never know if it's real or just my over reactive imagination. I truly believe that the energy of people that have passed through places like this remain. I felt it!
Thank you Lucy for sharing this video and your research with us. What an experience! A moment to reflect on all those falsely imprisoned, like the Victorian fella they mentioned with the alcohol addiction, maybe should have had medical assistance instead… The corporate punishment system has always been cruel and corrupt. Then and now. I thoroughly enjoyed your energy and enthusiasm in the sharing of our social history 🙏❤️
100% … you can’t imagine being incarcerated for stealing a loaf of bread can you? Or even worse birched …
This was really fascinating, thank you Lucy 😊 I would love for you to be able to talk to Carl Chinn one day, what he doesn't know about Brum history isn't worth knowing!
I love Carl Chinn so much! Massive fan. He’s a hero of mine! ❤️
Thanks for another great video ! My Dad was a Policeman, he worked at Steelhouse Lane !
Gosh, I bet he had some stories!!! 😅
Fantastic that you have a face to your great grandfathers name. I’ve been working on my family tree as well and any photos or tidbits I come across are wonderful. Looking forward to your next video. Cheers from 🇨🇦
You are so welcome and thank you. Families are so complex and often it's not until you get into the achieves you find the truth - it's wonderful to put the pieces back together xx
Truly interesting to see
Thank you! I loved making this!
The only jail that I've been to is the one in Inveraray, Scotland. I was living up there at the time and paid it a visit.
I've been in a couple of police stations in my younger years (don't ask!) and they had an underground passage to the Magistrates. Bit of a pain being held in there over the weekend until Monday morning!
I came across your channel as your back to back houses came up in my feed. A new subscriber xxx
Thank you! And for sharing your story, hey we all do things in our life we wouldn’t get 10/10 - makes us the rich humans we are ❤️
I found Inveraray Jail smelt very musty and it was a bit creepy. Visited some years ago..Never seen Steelhouse Lane lock up. Thanks for sharing.
Ozzy Osbourne did time in Winson Green before he was in Black Sabbath. It's where he had Ozzy tattooed on his left fingers. He had others done while in prison including a smiley face on his knee(s). I know he had one done, but I'm unsure if he had both knees done. A bit of trivia on Ozzy
I love our Ozzy! I bet he must have spent an over nighter in the lock up too!
Thanks Lucy, I went through Fremantle prison in Perth Australia. There definitely is a 'feeling' in prisons. I did not go in the hanging room, the thought disgusted me. To think some of the kids that ended up in Australia came out as convicts from England, Ireland and Scotland. A good read about a woman convict sent out is "The Potato Factory" by Bryce Courtney. Sad, so sad. Thanks again for this tour =-)
That's really interesting. We have a prison here you can look around with the hanging room. Although I'm interested in such things I couldn't go in there. Like you it makes me sick to my stomach - and I will check out that book x
I never even knew this was a thing you could do. Fascinating!
I’m gonna have to do some of my own research. The size of my family there have to have been more than a few of them in there over the years.
That “Tommy Tank” screen made me jump too 😂
Really enjoyed learning something completely new to me about our city. The teacher in you absolutely shines in this video
Thank you! I loved making this video so much, and same as you it’s less than 5 miles from my home and I didn’t even know it was there! As in the Lock-up part. Plenty of my family DNA in those walls 😂
Oh my goodness this was enthralling, I’ve been to Dartmouth prison and that was really good but there is more here than there is there, more to see and get a feel of. I live 25 miles from Brum and never heard of this place. I’m going to watch it again, it was sooooo good
Wow, thank you Stella, I'm ashamed I didn't know it was open to the public until recently either. It's a great place and very well preserved, I've heard Shrewsbury prison is good too - not long closed x
What a very interesting and informative video. I would love to visit there one day. Loved the mug shots, didn’t care for the birching chair, that was horrible 😮 wow if those walls could talk!
I imagine there would be some choice words said 😂 .. that birching chair is AWFUL isn’t it. Imagine having to dole out the beatings. Just no!
To children as well…! Totally barbaric ☹️
Really enjoying your work thank you!!!
My pleasure! Thank you so much.
Another great video 😊
Thanks again!
Been here more than I care to remember, back in the 90's.
Yes, I can absolutely vouch that the women's cells were literally like greenhouse conditions! Proper hot house!
The women had it worse in many ways also, 1 being that we would have to wait ages or ignored all together if we pressed the bell as the officers really didn't want to be walking up and down them stairs!
1 ggod thing was the breakfast... Always a hot fresh sausage or bacon egg butties.
Great video Lucy.. New subscriber.
Ps) cells still look the same except for the toilet seats... There wasn't any!
I am so chuffed you have reached out! I was hoping someone would, I think that's so funny they have put toilet seats on for the public - they should have left them off. I did think it was strange they were on there actually. Typical they put the women out of the way in a greenhouse - it was flipping BOILING when I was looking around and as a woman of a certain age I am hot all the time anyway - it was freezing outside! I dread to think what it was like in the summer. Good on you for surviving it .. and I fancy a bacon sarnie for breakfast now! Wonder if they have made them there or ordered out to a local caff! x
Incredible. Thank you so much for sharing.
I always wanted to go in there!!! ❤❤
Thank you so much, so so interesting 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
My goodness, I was struck by how your presentation delivery reminds me of Yvette Fielding but without the Ghosts and screams, then you go and mention Most Haunted lol
I loved her when I was a kid and she was a Blue Peter presenter, maybe it’s subliminal 😅
@@throughlucyslens maybe 🤣
There was something really ominous about looking down the passageway to the courts
Can’t have been a pleasant walk to have to do! I wonder where it comes up in the court?
Best guess would be the holding cells over there. But I’m good with never personally finding out 😂
Is this a national trust museum?, and a lot of my family spent time in the Victorian work houses in Dudley mainly and it think my great grandfather would have been a guest there!
Hi Lisa, no it's run by a charity connected to West Midlands Police, maybe our Great Grandfathers knew each other .. imagine!! Sharing porridge ;)
I don’t doubt this place is haunted with all that dark energy! I also find all the glamorization of criminal gangs distasteful. I’ve never been interested in Godfather, sopranos, peaky blinder romanticism of that type of person. Not my thing at all. This was fascinating. I really feel for poor people being punished so severely for trying to feed themselves and their families. Yes, there were plenty of people that deserved punishment, but putting kids in jail and served corporal punishment, or a guy doing time for stealing a chicken. Sad.
That birching stall is horrendous isn't it? Apparently it's still used in some counties in Asia, don't quote me but I think Singapore - they argue they have the lowest crime levels ... but there's also very little poverty there ... adds up right? Peaky Blinders has brought a lot of tourism to Birmingham which is no bad thing but coming from a family where my ancestors saw first hand how violent and destructive they were... it's a no from me.
I interviewed prisoners there in 1990 after the strangways riot as it was also used to hold prisoners sentenced but unable to serve their sentence in the prison estate because of overcrowding caused by the riot. The thing I remember most was the smell of bodies, food and toilets.
I can’t imagine. There’s still a smell I can’t describe there today - musty, liked cooked dinners. I bet it was insanely noisy too when it was busy.
This was very recently used wow! I do not think we have anything like this here in the US where I live. Kind of scary I bet being stuck in there, it must have a vibe too.
Yes! 2016 .. finally got the date straight in my wonky brain! It still *smells* how you would expect a jail to smell. And yeah there’s totally a “vibe” I was really jumpy in there! Silly as I’m usually so “chill” 😅
Fred west was held while waiting for trial at winson green prison where he took his own life
I thought so too but no one at the museum would confirm it, I asked two of the volunteers and they both went a bit shifty and were like no no, not here, no evidence. I guess maybe they don't want trophy hunters?
The Victorians were great builders
Indeed!
Will they search for your ancestors whilst you are there or do you have to contact them first as I would like to search for a couple of my relatives please? X
You can email the museums genealogists and they will have a look for you, there's also the records on online family history websites- that's how I found out AG was a regular visitor!
The thing is, nobody really knows his story.
He might have had something like ADHD which obviously wasn't known about back then. There's probably something going on, otherwise everyone would join gangs. If that makes sense? 😅
My mum had an uncle who would stop the traffic on the A6 to cross the road by stepping out and waving his cap.
He seemed to always be drunk, and he would walk a few steps, then yell out and walk on again.
All my family would turn and walk the other way if they saw him.
My friends would laugh 'he's your uncle!' and I denied him out of embarrassment.
It turns out Uncle Jimmy had shell shock. Not one of his family was there for him. 😢
If I could go back in time, I'd give him a big hug and tell him I loved him.
I feel so ashamed of denying him 😢
There's a good chance he did. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 40 🤯 and there's a tonne of "eccentricity" in my family - that's one way of saying it. He did some pretty unforgivable things later on his life and I think that's where the problems arises,
But I am glad we live in a society now where we can look at root causes with empathy and not just bin people off.
@throughlucyslens Yes, we've come a long way in understanding people.
I hear ya about romantising the truth. Anything for a dollar. They do it with the worst to. Meth MCs. Funny how they keep my families shenanigans off the screens. But i guess it's coz my families ownnthe screens. 🙄
Is there a list of prisoner names, it would be really cool if you could type in a surname and potentially find a relative ❤
There isn't a publicised list but if you think you had a relative that was there you can contact the museum and they can check names for you. You can also check court records and "court sessions" documents on websites like ancestry which is a list of who was tried, where they were sent & their crime x
@throughlucyslens something to explore in the future.. I only know my grampys family were from Moseley, my grampy and 2 younger bros went to war, the 2 middle brothers did not. So I wonder what they did do.. I also only know as far as their parents and 1 sister.. there must be so much more to know of course!
The Birmingham Six were NOT IRA bombers.
Thanks for educating me.
Pedant Alert
It's Hanged not hung.
I'm dyslexic so you're lucky I got the right word to be honest 😅
@@throughlucyslens great video all the same. 57 year old brummie, and you shamed me not knowing about Austin village. Went there on the 21st just gone thanks to you.
@@desmondrobinson169 Oh gosh don't be ashamed, I wouldn't have known about it either if I hadn't have been driving through. Hope you enjoyed a stroll around the area, it's lovely.
A very interesting place, it is horrific to think about children being birched and I would never condone that, but you have to think if that was still about today for punishing adults would we have the problems we have with violent crimes today.
Since the mid-90s there has been almost a 50% reduction in the volume of crime in England and Wales - a trend that has been mirrored in many Western countries. So even though you might like assaulting children to force them into line, there seems nothing in your theory at all.
Loved this one Lucy 👍🏻 I've been researching my family history for about 30 yrs .. oh the skeletons we find 😂
They have done the same with the Crays from here in London, glorifying them in all the films ect.. but they were just vicious thugs in truth..
That photo was an amazing find.. 😘🫂💚
Still need to totally validate it's him but we can see a resemblance in a few cousins, I agree ref the Krays but I went mad on learning about them at one point x
Hi Lucy, Thank you for such an interesting video. lve looked how l can send you a message/email, as ld like to ask you a question re studying social history. Many thanks, Carol
Yes of course! Lilsparlourtube@gmail.com is the email address for the channel. Happy to help c
Hi Lucy, Did you get my email ? l sent it both ways, Capitol L and small case 'l'
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This was great Lucy 👍👍 I don’t know about children but in Singapore they still use the birch. Very low crime there & I have never felt so safe walking around by myself in the evening. With all the disgusting crime around I wouldn’t have a problem if it was brought back 🫣
Do they? gosh! I have never been to Singapore other than a quick stop over at Changmai.