MargieH 7,600 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Yes, definitely gory!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Beware of scissor grinders with overhanging brows! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Only just realised I messed this up ! Posted the same cutting twice . ! What still also amazes me is the way stories went round the country at that time . I presume copies of local newspapers went via stagecoach to other regional papers who copied the juiciest stories . The story above in a Cambridge newspaper was also repeated word for word in a Manchester paper . News report of the hanging Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 spelt with 1 'P' and 2 'P's on the stone itself.......dont suppose a lot of folk back then knew how to spell their name anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted July 8, 2017 Report Share Posted July 8, 2017 It was 200 years ago yesterday 7 July 1817 since Bessie Shepherd was murdered. She rests in the graveyard of St James' Church Papplewick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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