Search:

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.
...

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,...