1681 is on display at St Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland (which also displays his head). The phrase "[as] black as Newgate's knocker" is a Cockney reference to the door knocker on the front of the prison. In literature A record of executions conducted at the prison, together with commentary, was published as The Newgate Calendar. The prison appears in a number of works by Charles Dickens. Novels include Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty and Great Expectations. Newgate prison was also the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz. In song The Australian "Convict's Rum Song" mentions Newgate with a line reading: [I'd] ... even dance the Newgate Hornpipe If ye'll only gimme Rum!. The 'Newgate Hornpipe' refers to execution by hanging. Gallery References Notes Further reading Babington, Anthony. "Newgate in the Eighteenth Century" History Today (Sept 1971), Vol. 21 Issue 9, pp 650–657 online. External links Newgate prison Prison History Database: Newgate Prison Newgate prison The Diary of Thomas Lloyd kept in Newgate Prison, 1794–1796 1188 establishments in England 1903 disestablishments in England Buildings and structures completed in 1188 Buildings and structures demolished in 1777 Defunct prisons in London Former buildings and structures in the City of London Demolished buildings and structures in London Debtors' prisons Demolished prisons Buildings and structures demolished in 1903 Windmills in London Henry II of England