The Oscar Wilde jail that dare not open its doors any longer
Reading prison, a feted LGBT landmark in the UK, is up for sale, as the UK looks to turn state assets into money to bolster its budget
03 October 2019 - 17:22
London — Reading prison — a forbidding Victorian jail turned LGBT landmark — is for sale, Britain said on Thursday, offloading a deserted site best known for housing playwright Oscar Wilde for the “gross indecency” of gay sex.
Campaigners had hoped to turn the austere brick prison, which lies just west of London, into an arts centre to preserve a site of gay pilgrimage and honour Wilde’s literary legacy...
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