Winter's Gibbet
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Description
"On 29th August 1791, William Winter murdered Margaret Crozier at Raw, about three miles north of Elsdon. Winter, and two accomplices, were caught, tried and hanged at the Westgate, Newcastle. Winter's body was afterwards hung in chains at the Steng Cross, an ancient boundary stone a couple of miles south-east of Elsdon, within sight of his victims home." Photo by Phil Thirkell, 2007. -
Owner
Phil Thirkell -
Source
Geograph (Geograph) -
License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License -
Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/374285
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 3 years, 9 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2007-03-20 -
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