Today we visited the historical Prison at Crumlin Road. We bought our tickets beforehand for 9£ each and realised if we had bought them there we would have paid 12£ each. Since it was pouring down the whole day we used a taxi to get there. The tour itself was funny and i think one of the big reasons for this was our tour guide. It takes a certain kind of humour to create funny story’s on a jail tour as you can imagine. The prison itself closed it doors in 1996.
At the beginning of the tour we were visiting the entry point for every prisoner and saw how small the changing cabins were. we were even allowed to stand in them and shut the door if we want to. After that we went into a tunnel that goes right under the street. Our guide told us that sometimes this tunnel is flooded and nobody is allowed to enter if this happens, but for now it was still alright even tough there were some big puddles and the whole walkway was wet.
For myself one of the interesting information’s was that the prison also held children captives there that were less then 14 years old which for me sounds like something that is more or less unthinkable in modern days, in the early years. The tour also included the death row and the fact that the prisoners in there were sleeping right next to the room that was used to hang them.