Home Run

The first thing you see when you step out of Walton station is a wall. Five metres high, with a rounded top. The distinctive exterior of a prison. This is Liverpool Prison, or, as it was known before the modern world decided to suck all charm out of everything, Walton Gaol. The main prison for the Merseyside region, famous and infamous, home to 1300 people and not somewhere I ever hope to see the…