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.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and Around Scunthorpe
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and 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 and Around Scunthorpe write by Stephen Wade. This book was released on 2005. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and Around Scunthorpe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the stories of extreme crime in the social history of one of Britain's major steel towns. But the Lindsey and Isle of Axeholme areas have other sources of interest in the context of law and disorder. The 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace was prominent here; there were footpath gangs, and highwaymen active around the Humber, and in more recent times the town has seen several unsolved murder cases. 'The Industrial Garden Town' has seen communal conflict industrial turmoil and the extreme acts of violence are associated with a town with unsettled labour patterns and rapid social change. Author Details Stephen Paul Wade was born in Leeds, but has lived in Scunthorpe for thirty years. He is currently married with one son. He was educated at the University of Leeds and the University of Wales where he gained a BA, MA and phD. Stephen Wade has lectured in further and higher education and was formally Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield. Previous titles written by him include, Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Halifax and Aspects of Huddersfield 2.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester - 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 Colchester write by Patrick Denney. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Colchester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Takes the reader on a sinister journey from the religious persecutions of Queen Mary's time to the twentieth century, meeting villains, cut-throats, arsonists and lunatics along the way. The book is based on original research and recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose fate has hitherto been forgotten.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Leicester
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Leicester - 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 Around Leicester write by Kevin Turton. This book was released on 2005-09-01. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Leicester available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Murder and more in the Midlands—true stories of historical crimes in this British city from the 1850s to the 1950s. Includes photos. Within the pages of this book are some of the most notorious and often baffling cases in Leicestershire’s history—from the appalling double murder at Melton Mowbray in 1856, known locally as the Peppermint Billy murders, to the 1953 murderer Joseph Reynolds, who killed because he wanted to know how it felt. This book explores the cases that dominated the headlines, not only across the city and surrounding county but also nationwide. These are the stories from a time when murder was a capital offense and guilt or innocence was proven without the benefit of modern forensic technique or DNA profiling. Included also are some of those mysterious cases that will remain forever unsolved, as in the now famous case of Bella Wright. Known across the whole country as the Green Bicycle Murder, it commanded public attention in 1919 because of the complex and puzzling nature of the crime—and has continued to do so ever since.
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston - 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/Folkeston write by Martin Easdown. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths/Folkeston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'. There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing incidents of evil to recount, many of which will be unfamiliar to the reader. Infant murders were once so rife in Folkestone it was termed the 'infanticide capital of Kent'. This fascinating book recalls many such grisly events, as well as sad or unsavoury individuals who have darkened this otherwise pleasant corner of the Garden of England.
