Comments on: In The Clink- London Prison Museum

By: Suzanne Sherwood

Suzanne Sherwood — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:10:23 +0000

I didn’t know the term originated with a particular London prison. Thanks for this.

By: alyson@worldtravelfamily

alyson@worldtravelfamily — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:12:11 +0000

In reply to Michael Orobona. Thanks Michael. We ceratainly had lots of fun at the Clink with kids and I remember how pleased I was to find this little place years and years ago, it's cool.

By: Michael Orobona

Michael Orobona — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:14:51 +0000

Fantastic. I love the explantion of the word “clink,” like all good trivia it’s something I’d never wondered, but now I don’t know how I could do without. Things like this are often so much more fun and interesting than the “must sees.”

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 19:54:47 +0000

Cool. We were taken to places like this in London when we were kids – and usually threatened with being left there – but I don’t think we ever went here.

By: Talitha Guittin

Talitha Guittin — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:00:19 +0000

Hey, this is funny … I didn’t know about the Clink – but we have a flemish expression “to lie in the clinch with someone” (in de klinch liggen met iemand), meaning to be at odds with someone – and nobody seems to know where it comes from. Maybe the clink is the ethymological answer !
I am off with our youth association to the French Alps, 7 days with 27 teenagers … Yes!