Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In & Around The Fens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In & Around The Fens write by Glenda Goulden. This book was released on 2008-10-16. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In & Around The Fens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover this coastal plain in England—and the crimes that have taken place there over the centuries. The Fens of England, thinly populated with isolated farmsteads, has been the setting for a number of popular crime novels—but it has also been the actual site of many horrific, bloody, and bizarre incidents. This book takes a gripping look at the darker side of the area’s history—from crimes of callous premeditation to those born of passion or despair. Included are tales of conspiracy, robbery, violence, cruelty, and murder that reveal a previously neglected side of Fenland society. Unforgettable cases are featured—a mother who murdered her son, a police officer who hid the body of his mother, a farmer brutally slain for his money, a dustman who killed a local girl, and the headless body of a woman who has never been identified. Covering a wide range of human weakness and wickedness, this chronicle of the hidden side of the Fens will be compelling reading for anyone who is interested in the sinister side of human nature and the social conditions that nurture it.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around the Fens
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around the Fens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around the Fens write by Glenda Goulden. This book was released on 2008-10. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around the Fens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The criminal cases vividly described by Glenda Goulden in this book take the reader on a journey into the dark history of the Fens. This flat and wide open landscape, thinly populated with isolated farmsteads, has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Frome
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Frome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Frome write by Mick Davis. This book was released on 2018-07-30. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Frome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasnt always been so chic and behind this modern-day faade lies a more sinister and foul past; full of murder, kidnapping, rioting, witchcraft and rebellion, among the other nefarious activities that have taken place over the centuries in the town and surrounding areas.Indeed, the very existence of Frome is down to acts of criminality; as it has been said the reason Saint Aldhelm built his Saxon church in the first place, thus bringing the market town into being, was to civilise the outlaws and bandits who roamed the interior of Selwood Forest; the huge tract of woodland which encircled the land that became the original settlement.Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Frome chronicles fourteen foul but fascinating stories that includes the Frome vicar who wrote the most significant book on witchcraft, influencing everyone from The Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley, to the perpetrators of the Salem witch trials; the key turning point in the Monmouth Rebellion; the last person to be publicly hanged outside Taunton gaol; a war veterans triple tragedy; and the violent and brutal pitched battle that was the culmination of a long-running feud between the local populace and the Salvation Army.You will never look at Frome the same way again.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees write by Maureen Anderson. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees, contains over sixty terrible and gruesome tales, that are set in the locality including; Barnard Castle, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and many of the surrounding villages. In the nineteenth-century, Victorian industrialists built their empires in the beautiful scenery and charming villages of the Tees area, using the river for transport of the commodities that were produced. Small, cramped houses were built to accommodate the rising population and often three or more families would live in one small dwelling. Many of the workers were illiterate and heavy drinkers. Domestic violence and drunken brawls were common amongst the poorer classes. Women and children were often a burden to the breadwinner and were held in low esteem. In a period spanning 100 years from 1799-1899 these well-researched events give an insight into the darker side of our region's history and heritage. Take a journey into the darker side of your area and let your spine tingle, as you read Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees. Key Selling Points * This new series by Wharncliffe Books, has been very successful in other local towns. * Readers always have a thirst for grisly tales of past misdemeanours in their local town. * Well illustrated using local sources and articles. Author Maureen Anderson was born in Scotland, as a child she was taken to Australia, and finally returned back to Britain in the early 1970's. Maureen now lives in the village of Seaton, where she carries out her research on ancient history. Maureen's parents were keen members of the National Trust, which gave Maureen her love of historical buildings and all things Victorian. Maureen also edited 'Aspects of Teesside', earlier this year for Wharncliffe Books.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe write by Stephen Wade. This book was released on 2005-04-30. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Scunthorpe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revealing criminal history of the old industrial town in North Lincolnshire, England, that has been home to centuries of dark secrets and twisted crimes. As the iron and steel industries grew in the Victorian period, several villages merged into the town of Scunthorpe, an area with more than its fair share of sordid and bloody secrets. Although mainly rural, the region has been notorious in the annals of crime, from the sixteenth-century rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace to the sensational murder cases of the twentieth century. Some of Scunthorpe’s killings were merely tragic domestic affairs, as industrial workers cracked with stress and alcohol. Other were more appalling, baffling, and the stuff of nightmares to this day. True crime historian Stephen Wade delves into Scunthorpe’s shadowy past: its bizarre murder-suicides, random slayings, cop-killers, pirates and bandits, cold-cases, night-stalkers and “The Black-Out Terror” of 1941. Centuries of dark scandal from the town’s deceptively tranquil fields to the violent mean streets.
