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
The Bells of Aberdovey (song) collected many Welsh folk-songs, he also rewrote many English songs into the Welsh language. There are several versions of this song in print in English and in Welsh. A widely used version was from "The National Song Book" of 1905. This gives the English words as written by the song collector and editor A.P.Graves. It also states that ""The more appropriate title would probably be "The Bells of Abertawe" (Swansea, South Wales)"". Other later references to Abertawe being its origin suggest this may be as there were church bells at Abertawe but not Aberdovey when the song was written. The