Above: Public executions once attracted huge crowds of ghoulish spectators. The last one in England took place in 1868, some 45 years after 17-year-old Joseph Dale met such a fate. Following on from the recent post about the Murder Stone lying beside the back road...
Above: The Murder Stone was erected in memory of William Wood at the very spot his brutally mutilated body was discovered, back in 1823. Above: The stone isn’t easy to find. This shows its position on my phone’s map app (click to enlarge). It’s on...
