About this Event

Following more fantastic feedback from our customers, The Ware Rooms is delighted to once again be displaying our very own Victorian Rogues Gallery.



This free exhibition will now be a permanent attraction in The Ware Rooms, following Euro Hostel Newcastle's purchase of the photographs from our friends at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.



The exhibition features a selection of mug shots from what is thought to be the last surviving collection of Victorian criminals’ photographs in Newcastle from 1871 - 1873. This collection of fascinating sepia images has drawn the attention of both local and national media since it’s unveiling in recent months, and we're delighted to be given the opportunity of extending the exhibition into 2014.



You may be wondering why The Ware Rooms is the venue for the exhibition? Dip into the history of our building on Carliol Square and you’ll find that this is the site of the former Newcastle House of Correction where many a local criminal was housed or indeed executed; it was here that these photographs were taken and where our rogues served their time.



In fact our bar was named following research into a local character, Henry Cunningham, the ringleader of a gang of prolific thieves who served time in the House of Correction, paying the price for his ill-gotten gains which were stored in his “wareroom”. Sound familiar?



Henry Cunningham was Newcastle’s very own Bill Sykes character!



Come along for a look at part of Newcastle's history.