Clink Prison Museum

I love history and am a crime buff so I thought this would be a good way to spend some time. Entrance is 5 GBP and not worth more than 1. bad wax figures with bad sound effects, like a high school haunted house. the potential for a place like this is enormous, but not at all realized in this tourist trap.

I had walked past this place before and thought it looked interesting, as I am interested history and how people used to live.

So me and my girlfriend were walking past after a couple of drinks on the South Bank and though it would be worth a look. The first thing that needs to be known is its 5 pound entry. Which is quite a lot seeing it takes a only 20 minuet walk through.

So what do you get for the money! Not much!! Ok I can except it small but the quality of what they fit into the space is poor.

There is info on the walls about what was happening around the time. But it seemed they just copied a giant wad of text and plonked it on the wall. Its not very interesting, and neither me of my girlfriend made it all the way through any of them. I have read a couple of books on life in the west end back then, Jack the Ripper etc so I do read! Its just boring and did not related to the prison.

There's the standard life-size models of prison inmates getting tortured, with a tape playing with their voices. Its ok, but not great. I never got a feel of what it was like day to day living there.

The info on how they used to be tourtured was interesting though on a plus side.

Overall its a pretty lazy museum, and as someone really interest in this stuff would have loved for it to be better.

Just a note to any staff who might read this. Its not very professional for the staff to find a spelling mistake on a plack on the wall and correct it in pen with an arrow. It should be replaced! Its one of the first thing you read in the place!!