I love this little extract from the "History of the Caernarfonshire Constabulary" by J Owain Jones
........On one occasion in the 1920s the tramps in Conwy Workhouse went on strike. They refused to do the tasks allotted to them in return for their board. The police were called in and the tramps, nineteen of them, were sentenced to a months imprisonment, and taken to Walton Gaol, Liverpol in a bus specially hired for the purpose. The town square of Conwy, where the police station is situated, was crammed with people who came to see them off.
You can imagine it can't you