Don't make me stay in jail

Belfast

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June 14th 2016
Our ship arrived in Belfast this morning. We took a bus into town, there is a shop at the docks and inside they sell tickets to the bus into town. I bought tickets online to a tour of the Crumlin Road Gaol (jail). The jail was opened in 1846 and closed in 1996. The youngest prisoner was ten years old. If a single mother was imprisoned her children would be sent to prison too. A 15 year old hunchba ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more