Pity The Poor Prisoners? Finish:Single on Old Palace Yard

on Old Palace Yard

Scene showing Mademoiselle Catherina in the centre apparently providing entertainment due to her small size for a gathering of fashionably dressed figures

The former toll gate was removed on 31 October 1866

Manchester

Pity The Poor Prisoners? Finish:Single on Old Palace Yard'Pity The Poor Prisoners?', 1868. A satirical look at the state of the nation's prisons in the mid Victorian period. Here, a group of lower class prisoners, probably enjoying, (in the view of Mr Punch), rather better living conditions than they might outside prison, complain about the standard of the shaving facilities provided and the possibility of skin diseases. Mr Punch would have little sympathy for such complaints. From Punch, or the London