HM Prison Pentonville hundreds throughout the British Empire. For instance, Pentonville was used as a model for the eventual construction of Corradino Prison in Rahal Gdid, Malta by W. Lamb Arrowsmith in 1842. Prisoners under sentence of death were not housed at Pentonville Prison until the closure of Newgate in 1902, when Pentonville took over executions in north London. Condemned cells were added and an execution room built to house Newgate's gallows. At the same time Pentonville took over from Newgate the function of being the training location for future executioners. Irish revolutionary Roger Casement was hanged there on 3 August 1916 and
Bow, London Bow, London Bow () is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in inner East London. Spanning north-south from Roman Road to the Limehouse Cut and west-east from Mile End and Bethnal Green to Stratford, it is built-up and mostly residential, and east of Charing Cross. The area was formerly part of Stratford, and "Bow" is an abbreviation of the medieval name Stratford-at-Bow, in which "Bow" refers to the bowed bridge built here in the early 12th century. Bow is adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and a section of the district is part of the park.