Drygate Housing Scheme (Glasgow)

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Housing scheme built between 1962 and 1964 on the site of old Duke Street Prison.
The boundary wall of this housing complex is in fact the exterior wall of the prison, which was lowered and opened up in a few places.

There is a happy land,
doon Duke Street Jail,
Where a' the prisoners stand,
tied tae a nail.
Ham an' eggs they never see,
dirty watter fur yer tea;
there they live in misery
God Save the Queen!

As Duke Street prison held women prisoners from around Scotland, many Suffragettes and political activists were imprisoned here whose protests at the living conditions would eventually lead to the closure in 1955. It was demolished in 1958 to eventually make way for the Ladywell housing scheme which was built on the site from 1961- 1964 and stands till this day. The only remaining structure of Duke Street Prison is some of the boundary wall[1]
12 Executions were carried out here between 1865 and 1928 and the last woman to be executed in Scotland and at the time the first in over 50 years, Susan Newell[2] was hanged here for strangling a paper boy and refused the traditional white hood.