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Hanged at Winchester
Steve Fielding
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Description for Hanged at Winchester
Paperback. Steve Fielding's highly readable new book features each of the twenty-nine cases in one volume for the first time and is fully illustrated with photographs, news cuttings, rare documents and drawings. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 173 x 8. Weight in Grams: 342.
For decades the high walls of Winchester Prison have contained some of the country’s most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for those convicted in Hampshire. Among the executions carried out here was the hanging of soldier Abraham Goldenberg for the murder of a bank clerk; William Podmore, hanged in 1930 after killing a garage owner in Southampton; and two Polish refugees who murdered a have-a-go hero during a bungled bank robbery. Winchester was also the site of the last triple execution in Britain, when a Teignmouth coachman, a ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752457079
SKU
V9780752457079
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Steve Fielding
STEVE FIELDING has contributed to a number of crime publications including The Criminologist, True Crime and Master Detective. He is the author of Hanged at Durham, Hanged at Pentonville, Hanged at Manchester and Hanged at Birmingham. He lives in Bolton, Lancashire.
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