Taffy, Chris thanks for pics and link.
More info; Thomas Grime was hanged on Saturday, September 1st, 1866, outside Kirkdale Prison, Liverpool for the Murder of James Barton. A crowd of 50,000...
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Taffy, Chris thanks for pics and link.
More info; Thomas Grime was hanged on Saturday, September 1st, 1866, outside Kirkdale Prison, Liverpool for the Murder of James Barton. A crowd of 50,000...
Great pics, WSteve.
I love the old buildings, especially the industrial stuff.
Here is a map from the 1850s showing the gaol and surroundings.
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Thanks to Ged and Stan for the info and the links.
That's a bit more of the story uncovered.
This what the "GAOL" looks like today
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/962/birdseyegaol.jpg
Hello from sunny Wigan.
This is my first posting and being from Wigan I want something for nowt.:)
I'm researching a murder that was committed in 1863 at a coal mine called Bawkhouse colliery,...