53°23′54″N 2°54′52″W / 53.3983°N 2.9144°W / 53.3983; -2.9144 (Wavertree Lock-up, Liverpool) Funded by local residents, the lock-up was constructed in 1796 as a drunk tank to hold intoxicated persons overnight.

Prior to its construction a local unpaid constable was charged with looking after drunks in their own home all the while claiming an expense of 2 shillings.

Eventually, it became cheaper for a lock-up to be built rather than house drunks with a constable and therefore the building was constructed.

[2] During the 1840s the lock-up served as an isolation room for cholera victims and later during the Irish famine accommodation for families.

In 1869, James Picton replaced the building's original flat roof with a pointed one to prevent prisoners from escaping through the building's roof.