The Lock-Up or Round House

Joan & Geoff Young who owned The George Gallery in The High Street had this limited edition postcard printed. The first paragraph of the text is incorrect as it was used as a 'keep' for agricultural rioters during the period of unrest when there were many demonstrations across a large swathe of England against agricultural mechanisation and the equivalent of 'zero-hour contracts' for agricultural labourers. See article on record 680 explaining the background to the need for this lock-up.

This building was a temporary prison built in 1834 in the corner of the parish stone pit, where bull-baiting continued after its suppression elsewhere. It was built of stones out of the parish pit. The date 1834 is quite certain as there are details about it in the minute book of the Vestry, as the body which then ruled the parish was called. The Lock-up was only used as such for six years.

• Church Road, Recreation Ground, Quarry and Lock-up

• Stone Pit and Lock-Up
• The Quarry
• The Lock-up
• The Lock-up
• The Lock-up Survey 2001
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• The Lock-Up or Round House
• Quarry face
• Quarry face
• Wheatley Quarry
• Recreation Ground
• Booklet of eight views of Wheatley c.1950
• The Hinton Collection of early postcards of Wheatley - 1913-1915
• Postcard
• Recreation Ground
• Aerial view taken in 2000
• Bernard Hickey painting
• Assorted press cuttings from 1980 to 1982

• A 684