
What’s a Bridewell?
I remember being in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the late 1980s when there was a local football derby match on ...
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The Gateshead Ripper?
Most people will have heard of "Jack the Ripper", the person responsible for the gruesome murders in Whitechapel, London, during ...
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1683 – Murders at the Brass Farm
28th January 1683, Mr John Brass and his wife Margaret left their home to visit a neighbour for the evening ...
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The mysterious death of Florence Nightingale Shore
The death of Florence Nightingale Shore could have been straight from the pages of an Agatha Christie mystery. Yet, nearly ...
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Sanctuary : Seeking the refuge of the Cathedral
During the Medieval Period (5th-15th Century) people who had committed a serious office would very often be facing death at ...
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Dark Angel – Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Robson was born in the colliery village of Low Moorsley in the County of Durham, (Now part of ...
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