Yorkshire Hangmen
Available
From the eighteenth century, York was one of the places employing its own hangmen, copying London and Newgate, even to the use of the word Tyburn to define its Knavesmire gallows, also known as the three-legged mare. That was where highwayman Dick Turpin met his fate; but later, in the Victorian period, Armley Gaol in Leeds also became a hanging prison, the site of the death of the notorious kille...
Read more
E-book
epub
Price
4,49 €
From the eighteenth century, York was one of the places employing its own hangmen, copying London and Newgate, even to the use of the word Tyburn to define its Knavesmire gallows, also known as the three-legged mare. That was where highwayman Dick Turpin met his fate; but later, in the Victorian period, Armley Gaol in Leeds also became a hanging prison, the site of the death of the notorious kille...
Read more
Follow the Author
