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    Pentonville is an area in North London, located in the London Borough of Islington. It is located 1.75 miles (2.82 km) north-northeast of Charing Cross...
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    HM Prison Pentonville (informally "The Ville") is an English Category B men's prison, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Pentonville Prison is...
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  • The Pentonville Five were five shop stewards who were imprisoned in July 1972 by the National Industrial Relations Court for refusing to obey a court...
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    Pentonville Road is a road in Central London that runs west to east from Kings Cross to City Road at The Angel, Islington. The road is part of the London...
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  • then-girlfriend Kate Moss, and "Pentonville" was written by Doherty and The General, a friend he met whilst an inmate in Pentonville Prison. The album was seen...
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    northernmost point and moving clockwise, the roads defining the boundary are Pentonville Road, City Road, Old Street, Great Eastern Street, Commercial Street...
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  • Pentonville was an electoral ward in the London Borough of Islington from 1965 to 1978. The ward was first used in the 1964 elections and last used for...
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    homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. He...
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  • his appeal on 20 February had failed, Evans was hanged at HM Prison Pentonville on 9 March 1950. At the time of Evans' trial, Christie had found a job...
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    who killed two young women in the summer of 1946. He was executed in Pentonville Prison, London, in October 1946. Neville Heath was born in Ilford, Essex...
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    involved in the development of the Pentonville district of London, where there is a Cumming Street running north from Pentonville Road. He had a house in the...
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    Pentonville Prison Treadmill, 1895...
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    ventilator behind the cell door in Pentonville Prison, London on 1 April 1864. "MELANCHOLY SUICIDE IN PENTONVILLE PRISON An inquiry of a melancholy character...
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  • Sir Milton Pentonville Allen OBE (22 June 1888 – 17 September 1981) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1969 to 1975. He was a native...
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    Joseph Grimaldi Park is a public garden located off Pentonville Road in Islington, north London. The former burial grounds for St James's Anglican Chapel...
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    extremity of the road is at Angel where it forms a continuation of Pentonville Road. Pentonville Road itself is the modern name for the eastern part of London's...
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    mandated under law. Schurch was hanged on 4 January 1946 at HM Prison Pentonville, at the age of 27. His execution was carried out by Albert Pierrepoint...
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    The Angel, Islington (category Pentonville Road)
    buildings that have stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road in Islington, London, England. The land originally belonged to the...
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    teardrop drawn on her face in eyeliner after her husband Blake entered the Pentonville prison hospital following a suspected drug overdose. It can acknowledge...
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    The Castle public house, Pentonville Road, where much of the heist's planning took place....
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  • hanged on 9 March 1950 by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Syd Dernley at Pentonville Prison. The safety of Evans's conviction was severely criticised when...
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  • John Lingard of Pentonville (24 February 1768—March 1845) was an English author and expert in the field of dry rot. He also worked with Richard Holmes...
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    Guy's Hospital in London. Thomas Hodgkin was born to a Quaker family in Pentonville, St. James Parish, Middlesex, the son of John Hodgkin. He received private...
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    unconscious, she was carried to the gallows by four prison warders. In Pentonville Prison, the 20-year-old Frederick Bywaters, who had tried since his arrest...
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    starting from 1842 based on plans by W. Lamb Arrowsmith on the model of the Pentonville prison in London,[citation needed] with a capacity of 200 prisoners divided...
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    completed by 1807. Two Acts of Parliament allowed for the building of Pentonville Prison for the detention of convicts sentenced to imprisonment or awaiting...
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    Camden Road near its junction with Holloway Road, and central London's Pentonville Road in the south. A mile and a half long, it is known colloquially as...
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    supervisor and five storeys with nine cells on each floor. It was the Pentonville prison, which was built in London after Bentham's death in 1832, that...
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    War of 1812, He became Surveyor-General of convict prisons. By 1850, Pentonville Prison which he had designed had become a template for prison construction...
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    shooting the film. In the mid-1980s Allen served a 21-day jail sentence in Pentonville Prison after being found guilty of criminal damage at the Zanzibar club...
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