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1595 saw the setting up in Wakefield of a House of Correction. Men, women and children were all kept within its walls. It is from this building that the nursery rhyme 'Here we go around the Mulberry bush' comes. As the children used to play around a mulberry bush, that bush is now a rather large tree and still in its original position. The prison was under the ruling of the West Riding Magistrates but in 1877 came under control of the Government. During part of the twentieth century the prison was under military rule. | |
