“ADVENTURE IS WORTHWHILE.” – AESOP
The final ceremony of placing the Cleopatra Needle into position on the Waterloo steps of the Thames embankment took place yesterday afternoon and was most successfully accomplished. The Needle was resting horizontally on the great wooden structure which had … Read More
Notable amongst Mosborough’s residents in the late eighteenth century was Captain Thomas Hare (c.1743-1796), about whom little is known, but whose legacy lives on in the Mosborough landscape at a place called “Captain’s Croft” and an adjoining footpath, known locally … Read More
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO – By an Officer Hail to the Lads of Waterloo, Who bravely fought, ’tis very true; Though really that is nothing new, As former deeds, did plainly shew ; Hail to the … Read More
Within the week just past, an event has taken place our social history which will mark off the future more definitely than ever from the past- The object for which have so frequently pleaded has been achieved. The last public … Read More
James Sarginson, twenty years of age, was yesterday put upon his trial at the Leeds Assizes for the wilful murder of John Cooper. The story of the tragedy has passed into history under the name of the Roche Abbey murder. … Read More
THE BANNERCROSS MURDER. Convicted of having in November, 1879 murdered Arthur Dyson, near Sheffield, Charles Peace, suffered the extreme penalty of the law eight o’clock on Tuesday morning. The execution took place at Armley Prison, where he has been … Read More
EXECUTION OF HENRY WAINWRIGHT On Tuesday morning the convict Henry Wainwright was executed within the precincts of the gaol of Newgate for the murder Harriet Lane. immense crowd of people had collected in the Old Bailey from an early hour, … Read More