19 August 1930: The prisoners do all the gardening themselves and voluntarily go to lectures and classes when the weather is rainy
Gardens tended by women detained in Holloway Prison is a dream of Miss MD Stubbs, of the National Gardens Guild, that has come true. Inside that grim place for wrong-doers are three big gardens where summer flowers are in bloom, bringing their fragrance to beautify the drab prison life.
Only a short time ago one of those gardens was a dumping ground for coke; another was a rubbish heap; and the third consisted of a long strip of rough grass having a sycamore tree, a wasp’s nest, iron railings, and a drain pipe.
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