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Angela Buckley 🔎 on Twitter: "The treadmill was a typical punishment in Victorian prisons. It was also known as a 'stepper', a 'shinscraper' and, my personal favourite, a 'cockchafer' 😱 #crimehistory #slang
![Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041192/full/300,/0/default.jpg)
Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald. | Wellcome Collection
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