Research | Heritage Museum

History on the Bridewell museum and the town along with how it was a part of Kett's rebellion.

• Other prisons in the British Empire were based around the model of Wymondham prison - all will look similar.
• brideWELL - were prisons that were located near a well and when people would describe how to get to the prison the well was mentioned - how the name came about.
• Was the first prison to have single cells.
• Brush making in 1890's - links with Norwich.
• Big part of the Wool industry.
• Kett's rebellion.
• Once closed as a prison not more than a year later it became a Magistrates court which closed in 1992.
• The original prison was knocked down - they rebuilt it on the front and had two wings added onto the side then had the original knocked down but it still has the window frame seen standing in the garden.

Found a book of old photos that'd been taken of the town many years ago though there was no dates to specify when exactly they were taken you can see how things have evolved since then and changed. The photograph of the road curving round has changed particularly as on my visits there i noticed that a new shop was being added on the corner of the road there. Like the prison now being a local museum lots of the uses of buildings in the town are now occupying food stores, general stores, charity stores and pubs. In these photos there is more land than there is now as more has been built overtime as the place has expanded and its population growing.