- riddled with damp and disease

- the squalor of The Tolbooth Jail didn't offer much comfort for Stirling's unfortunate prisoners in the 1840s, when it was condemned as the 'worst jail in Britain'.

So the prospect of a new jail offered a glimmer of hope - the chance of relief from the cramped and overcrowded conditions.

But what was in store for the poor inmates as they trudged across to their new accommodation, on a cold November day, in 1847?

What would life be like in Stirling's Old Town Jail?

Come and find out for yourself what justice was all about in Victorian days.