Spinning House
id:
spinning-house-306-17051717
title:
Spinning House
text:
The Spinning House, also known as the Cambridge House of Correction and Hobson's Bridewell, was a workhouse and prison built in Cambridge in the 1600s and demolished in 1901. In the Victorian era it held local women suspected by the Proctors of having a corrupting influence on the male student population, until this power was removed by Act of Parliament in 1893. This removal followed the high-profile case of 17-year-old Daisy Hopkins, who was arrested in 1891 for the crime of "walking with a me
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_House
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-03T17:15:08Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q28403711","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28403711"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Police_Station_%28former%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4904418.jpg","width":640,"height":426}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14