Portsmouth Naval Prison

This Castle-like building served as the naval prison for many years. Known as the "Alcatraz" of the east. For those interested - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Naval_Prison

[Dawn]

A fabulous view of this old building and enjoyed reading about it

[winghong_ho]

Lovely building. I cannot image that it is used as a naval prison.

[Oli Lindenskov]

Lovely shot😊

[Jane Pittenger]

Looks like the Navy must have had a lot of prisoners

[Bucktree]

Excellent view of this building and fascinating history.

[Dorothy]

Wow that’s a huge building!

[Valerie Chesney]

Great capture & interesting history!

[Diana]

Fabulous shot of this grand looking prison.

[Issi Bannerman]

Interesting, rather grand looking prison!

[haskar]

A beautiful building with a very sad history.

[Dione Giorgio]

Such a beautiful place reduced to a prison. Great capture and interesting history.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Such wonderful buildings albeit a sad history

[Wylie]

At least they had a view!

[Peter Dulis]

nice one

[Mags]

It's a lovely old building! They don't look as nice around here.

[Casablanca]

Very nice shot of it

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great capture.

[Merrelyn]

It's a lovely looking building, but I guess it wouldn't have been pleasant for those incarcerated.

[Fisher Family]

Great capture of this wonderful building. I suspect not too wonderful if you are imprisoned there.

Katharine

[Jacqueline]

Great capture and thanks for the interesting link!

[Renee Salamon]

Very grand looking - lovely colours

[Maxine Lathbury]

Lovely picture and very interesting

[Margaret Brown]

Nice capture such a grand building

[carol white]

Great capture

[Islandgirl]

What a grand building for a prison!

[Judith Johnson]

Super capture

[Junan Heath]

Very interesting shot!

[Carole Sandford]

How interesting! Impressive building.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Nice shot

[Ann H. LeFevre]

I haven't processed the photos I took of this place- of course they were all from a moving car! Nice shot.

[gloria jones]

Excellent shot, clarity, blue shades

[Shutterbug]

Looks too pretty to be a prison. Love your architecture shot. Thanks for the info link.

[Corinne C]

A great photo

[Jennifer Eurell]

Flash building for a prison.

[John Falconer]

Looks foreboding. Great shot.