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It’s been another busy month at Shepton Mallet Prison, Educational Visits have been flying through our gates and we have had the pleasure of welcoming over 600 students, all eager to learn about the incredible history of our site. From students challenging our Cell Escapes and managing to make their way to freedom at […]
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Shepton Mallet Prison hosted another new and exciting exhibition as part of the Somerset Art Weeks (SAW) Festival 2022, running from Saturday 1st until Sunday 9th October, Six artists took over C-Wing for the full nine days, to create and exhibit site responsive, immersive artworks. Working with colour, form, light and sound the artists brought […]
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We were delighted to host numerous groups for corporate team building days at Shepton Mallet Prison throughout October, alongside hen parties and stag celebrations. At the start of the month, we welcomed Chubb Bulleid through our gates. Over 30 unsuspecting participants had no idea they would end up behind bars as their trip had been […]
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With the launch of our brand-new escape rooms over the summer holidays, the public took to these in full swing, and it wasn’t long before we welcomed the first private party to test them out. Midford Road Nursery were our challengers. A group who were definitely up for a laugh, they introduced themselves through their […]
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Throughout September, we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming a variety of different Paranormal Investigators behind bars at Shepton Mallet Prison; teams from Haunted Happenings, Team Spirit UK, and an event hosted by the Psychic Medium, Dean Harding. Haunted Happenings, regular visitors here at Shepton Mallet Prison, visited the site on three occasions during the month, […]
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It’s a new month and a new start to the academic year, and we were delighted to be visited by a large number of university students. We welcomed over 100 brand new first year students from the University of South Wales (USW) on 20th September. They were studying a variety of degree courses including Criminology, […]
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From 1942 to 1945 Shepton Mallet Prison was used as an American military prison and held many soldiers during this time. Bernard Benedict James was one of these prisoners. Pictured: Bernard Benedict James, shown at his La Mirada home. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Bernard was born on February 7th 1921, […]
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This August has been a slightly different kind of month for the Night Supervisors at Shepton Mallet Prison. In addition to the usual Friday and Saturday night teams we often welcome, there have been several different Paranormal Groups visiting the prison, unusually on Sundays. The team even spent one evening looking after our zombie friends […]
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Since becoming a world-class, heritage-led tourism attraction in 2017 Shepton Mallet Prison has been the prison home to a variety of exciting productions. Being such a unique setting has allured the film industry – it’s not common to be able to create a movie set inside a real prison. This means we have been lucky […]
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Following the success of the Art Behind Bars event, ‘Prison Residencies’ that took place in September 2021, Shepton Mallet Prison is playing host to yet another Art Behind Bars event called ‘OUTSIDE IN.’ OUTSIDE IN is an exhibition that is part of SAW’s Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2022 and the artists will be inspired by […]
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How it all Began… Shepton Mallet Prison is known as the world’s most haunted prison. A heritage led, world class tourism experience that began inspiring, immersing, educating and engaging visitors through a journey behind bars in 2017. Shepton Mallet Prison housed its first inmates in 1625 and was decommissioned in 2013. Since its closure, we […]
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Another successful month of many, many school visits. We welcomed, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Sixth Forms groups and a couple of Scout Groups, totalling a massive 561 students visiting us behind bars at Shepton Mallet Prison. This month was made more challenging due to the heat, which resulted in us ditching the bright orange jumpsuits […]
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