Lost Buildings of Britain is a Documentary programme.

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Lost Buildings of Britain: Millbank Penitentiary

Series 1, episode 4

Architectural historian Simon Thurley searches the country for evidence of historic buildings which have long since disappeared. In the last of the series he researches the history of Millbank Penitentiary which stood on the site now occupied by Tate Britain. He discovers how this experiment in remodelling the British prison system failed, though the lessons learned helped shape the prisons of today