AHMM reveals designs for 980 homes on Holloway Prison

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-07-13T05:00:00

Peabody Holloway Prison proposal by AHMM resize

Source: AHMM / Peabody

But campaigners argue scheme is a missed opportunity for not involving women

AHMM has revealed proposals for nearly 1,000 homes for Peabody on the 4ha former Holloway Prison site in north London.

Holloway was western Europe’s largest women’s prison – and one of Britain’s most famous jails – before its closure in 2016. Dozens of suffragettes were incarcerated there as well as Moors murderer Myra Hindley and Diana Mitford, wife of the fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Five women were executed there including Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be judicially hanged in Britain. Oscar Wilde was an inmate before it became a women’s prison.

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