Newspaper cutting from the Bexhill Observer 9.10.1971 about escaped prisoners from HMP Northeye.

"A prison officer, one of many on duty during the hunt for the two escaped Northeye prisoners, warns motorists passing through Hooe not to give lifts to hitch-hikers."
Bexhill Observer 9.10.1971. #Hooe #Northeye #Prison #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1970s #ThrowbackThursday

"The Lost Towns Of The Marshes.
Northeye, from the remnants of 'Northeye chapel' and the still surviving name of 'Old Town Field,' may with some certainty be located in the Bexhill portion of the Marsh..."
Bexhill Observer 24.9.1904. #SwampSunday #Northeye

Tory pair backed ‘rushed and misjudged’ asylum site purchase, watchdog says Robert Jenrick and Oliver Dowden were on committee that supported paying £15m for asbestos-ridden former prison

#Jenrick #Dowden Tory pair backed ‘rushed and misjudged’ asylum site purchase. #Northeye
Spent £15.4m from an investment company that paid half for it!
Never used, asbestos risk.
Scandal?
#waste
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Home Office fails to rule out housing asylum-seekers in asbestos-filled former prison Government urged to put ‘clear distance between it and the cruel, wasteful camps policy held by the previous one’

Absolute scandal: The Tories criminal & shameful contempt for human life to plan to house refugees in asbestos poisoned former prisons! Brutality so normalised that even the Home Office under Labour(!) still doesn't rule out housing people there. #Northeye
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/home...

Redmayne Bentley Stockbrokers v Martin Charles Isaacs & others 0: [object Object]. 1: [object Object]. 2: [object Object]. 3: [object Object]. 4: [object Object]. 5: [object Object]. 6: [object Object]. 7: [object Obje..

Interesting read on one of the #NorthEye directors in that sale
@guardianheather.bsky.social admittedly only a director find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC44... for 24 hours on 8thJuly2022 vlex.co.uk/vid/redmayne...