Liverpool Bridewell prison to be converted into student housing
Plans have been given the go-ahead to convert the notorious Bridewell jail on Cheapside (off Dale Street) into student flats.
Permission has been given to Jam Works Limited who plan to create 15 student flats consisting of 86 rooms with en-suite facilities.
But it’s a building with a eerie past – once described as “the worst jail in Britain”, the Bridewell was built as an escape-proof lock-up, and is one of the country’s best surviving examples of the Victorian penal system …