Exploring London's Abandoned Prison - HMP Holloway

Hi, I worked as a contractor maintaining the fire alarms here 2004-2012. Not full time, only when the prison required us to visit. One job was looking for a damaged cable which I located outside the sports hall. We had to replace the cable whilst the inmates were carrying on as normal, this wasn’t easy with tools etc! We had an escort who would count our tools against a list that was made before entering the prison. This was always interesting if a miscount occurred followed by a successful recount! You can see the cables we installed, red cable top left 16:31 before walking into the sports hall. When a job came in to work in this place it was always a strange feeling going in and leaving. Also being male and this being an all female prison it inmates would bang on the doors trying to intimidate us? and we would get shouted at all day long! Lots of words I can’t put on YouTube lol. Nice video and brought back some interesting memories for me. Keep it up 👍

The amount of abandonment worldwide is astounding. Great video.

I used to walk past it every day on my way to Holloway Boys School. Fascinating seeing the inside.

Watch 'Ten Days in Holloway 1986'. It brings your video to life. Even the swimming pool is seen in action. Great explore by you guys.

This was the site where Oscar Wilde spent his last night in prison on 18th May,1897. He was to have been released from HMP Reading but the governor fearing a hostile press outside, had him moved to London.

at a family gathering there was a conversation where Holloway was mentioned, and my Grandma stated, oh I've been there, and then went quiet for a few minutes, my uncle went on to enquire what she had been there for, thinking we were about to hear some deep dark secret, but instead we learned her dad worked there and she used to take him his lunch. Makes me wonder what her dad experienced while working there.

Not every day you see people sneaking into a prison

Officers Club just Outside Main Gate,and Blocks of Flats for Staff Accommidation Used to be Nicknamed "Tampax Towers"

I can still remember the old prison that looked like a castle. It went in the late 60s for the new one and now it's also gone.

Shame it can't be used to house London's many homeless people. Even in this state, it's got to be better than sleeping in an underpass, under a bridge or a shop doorway. But I guess that doesn't make any profits for the developers hey. Brilliant video though, I love urbex videos.

My Great Grandmother was in Holloway.. My suffragette Great Gran love her ❤..

I'm a simple man, I see a new Urbandoned video, I click and watch. Didn't disappoint. 11/10 will click again.

Carried out an asbestos Survey there back in 2020/21. The security at some point had let their pals in and they had stripped all the copper from wire, but little did they know that the cables where lagged with Asbestos, there was a lot of Asbestos debris in there at the time I was there.

It was likely closed because it stands on a better part of London for housing developement. Though it was a bleak hellhole for the female prisoners by all accounts

Very well produced .. atmospheric, lots of background info - and detailed cutaway shots that brought it to life.

Really well covered, nice to see some thorough and well put together footage of the site.

Heard a lot about this prison growing up in London. Many thanks for giving us the opportunity to see what it was like inside!

Hi a great video and a very interesting explore. Thankyou for making this video.

first time i've come across your videos and it didn't disappoint! got a good thing going

A3 was a good wing. The newer part of the building was a beginners wing where they would fade you into the main jail. The higher up the floor the worse it was. D wing was the worst wing to be on, which probably explains the mold I lady told me, whilst watching coronation Street, this was her time to smoke crack and to ignore it. I'd never seen more than cannabis or cocaine, then I was sent here. You mention the woman who wasnt looked after at then end of it's closure. I witnessed a woman overdose on my first night in the main jail. You're right Holloway did suck the life out of people.