Looking down on Thorpe Road and the Peterborough Gaol buildings that opened in 1844 but, after nationalization of the prison system, closed in 1878 after which they became the headquarters for the police (“Liberty of Peterborough Constabulary”). After the police moved out to a new station in 1957, the old gaol buildings were demolished in the early 1960s except for the Sessions House portion which survives today as a Grade 2 listed building.
