Why is it there? Why at the North-East corner of London's Hyde Park? Felons brought condemned down Tyburn Street through jeering cheering...
‘Carefully compiled’ in 1867 ‘from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,’ this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every murderer, highwayman, rogue and rebel ever to swing from the York Tyburn. From nobles such as Lord Hussey, Sir Robert Aske and the Earl of Northumberland […]
One of the Thames's tributaries, in the basement of Gray's Antiques.
Tyburn Triple Tree
A look at the lower, largest section of the KSP (King Scholars Pond) Sewer
signed "I D f" from John Seller's .....
South Molton Street Tyburn
It is not often that London’s hidden rivers are revealed to the open air in which they once basked – but it has happened momentarily to the Tyburn as…
On November 3, 1783, highwayman John Austin became the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
Above: An enlargement of a small part of the ‘Copper Engraving’ made about 1555. It shows the Great Conduit (shaded yellow). The view is slightly obscured by the large weather-vane on a nearby church which is drawn to the immediate right of the conduit. To the left are shown five large water jugs made of…
A map of hidden, subterranean London from www.londonist.com
Entrée de la chapelle Saint-Nicolas (la stèle du diable à gauche) Languidic, Morbihan
Genuine memoires of the life, family and behaviour of Laurence Shirley, Earl of Ferrers; who was executed at Tyburn, on Monday the fifth of May 1760 for the ...
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William Chaloner (1650s/1665 – 1699): Serial counterfeiter and confidence trickster proven guilty by Sir Isaac Newton
Fleet No: LT338 Reg Plate: LTZ 1338 Vehicle: Wrightbus New Routemaster Route: 137 Oxford Circus Location: Tyburn Way, Marble Arch, London Garage: Brixton Bus with a Coca Cola Wrap
Most societies are fascinated by women murderers. On September 14, 1767, a massive crowd gathered round the road to Tyburn, thronging around the hangman’s cart, throwing vegetable peels and other r…
The gallows at Tyburn now part of York Racecourse was one of four execution sites in the city. The gallows consisted of a wooden triangle known as the 'Three-Legged Mare'. The site was the scene of executions for more... more
