The Galleries of Justice Museum

This is The Galleries of Justice Museum.  This is the place you would be taken if you did something bad in Nottingham.  Right where I am standing in this picture there used to be public hangings.

Below is the court room.  (This court room was used until 1985.)  This is the place where the judge and jury would decide your fate.  It is also the place where they would keep dead bodies after execution.  They did this because once they put a dead body in a dungeon holding room and they lost it until it started to stink.  They also dissected the bodies here.  They used to dissect the bodies publicly but they stopped because the people watching were enjoying it and one person even tried to take an organ.  The tour was kind of like a skit with costumes so they used people in the tour group to perform it and my dad got to be the judge.

This is where they would they would hang people who got the death penalty.  They would pull a lever and the floor would fall out from underneath the prisoner.

When the prisoners went outside for their one hour of exercise, they would have to where a mask to cover their face so the other prisoners wouldn't see who they were.  For exercise the prisoners would walk in a circle single file so the prisoners couldn't talk to each other.