[5] The building was demolished in 1958 to eventually make way for the Ladywell housing scheme which was built on the site from 1961–1964 and stands till this day.

[1] Activist Wendy Wood, an early campaigner for Scottish independence, was imprisoned at Duke Street for 60 days for refusing to pay National Insurance.

[4][9][10] On 24 July 1913 suffragettes Ethel Moorhead and Dorothea Chalmers Smith were arrested during an attempt to set fire to an unoccupied mansion house at 6 Park Gardens, Glasgow, and were taken to Duke Street Prison.

Moorhead used her shoe to smash three cell windows and knocked the prison governor's hat off his head when he refused to remove it despite being in the presence of a lady.

Both women were sentenced to eight months imprisonment and found themselves back in Duke Street Prison, and went on hunger strike again.

[12] They were both released on temporary discharge on 20 October 1913 following a medical officer's report which stated that Ethel Moorhead was in an extremely feeble physical condition and that Dorothea Smith was very weak.

[11]Helen Crawfurd Anderson was imprisoned in Duke Street Prison in March 1914 after breaking two windows of the Army Recruiting Office in Gallowgate, as a protest against the arrest two days previously of Mrs Pankhurst.

[14][17][18] A cast iron umbrella stand, painted pink, green and white by suffragettes imprisoned at Duke Street, is among the collections at Glasgow Women's Library.