[Rob1912]

At the corner of Blackburn-road and the drive to Accrington House (now Peel street) was the Old Dungeon, close by the edge of the Hyndburn. Used for the confinement of prisoners for trivial offences, it was of small dimensions but evidently large enough for the village lock up. Here Joe Booth, the village Constable, placed under lock and key his prisoners, the chief offenders being Wap Ingham and Old Terry. On one occasion while Wap was an inmate of the Dungeon old Terry contrived to convey to his pal a pint of ale to solace his stay in durance vile. Another story is told that these two characters, confined in the Dungeon at the same time, managed to escape and wrote “To Let” on the door. Whenever Joe Booth made captures on the Saturday night he locked them up in the Dungeon and on the Sunday morning proudly escorted them to the stocks in Warner-street, to be there "exhibited" as objects of shame.
Crossley and Ainsworth articles