A Grim Almanac of Berkshire
by
Roger Long
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
In Old Photographs
ISBN-10
0750935111
ISBN-13
9780750935111
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Imprint
Sutton Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 22nd, 2004
Print length
160 Pages
Product Classification:
Local history
Ksh 2,700.00
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Roger Long has investigated archives for evidence of the darker side of Berkshire life and brings his findings together in this day-by-day guide. It includes tales of murder, smuggling, strange deaths, bodysnatching, bizarre disasters and more.
If it's grim, ghastly, grisly or gruesome and it happened in Berkshire in the last 1,500 years, chances are Roger Long has investigated it. He has spent many, many hours searching the archives for evidence of the darker side of Berkshire life and brings his findings together in this day-by-day guide. Almanac entries include: - A publican with a special tilting bed that dropped his victims into a pot of boiling fat - A farmer who slew three wives and boiled up the remains of one of them - The story of Danny Grimshaw, the bogey man conjured up by mothers to threaten their children - The man hanged for forging a GBP1 cheque - The gruesome display of a murder victim's body where his family charged a penny a look Roger Long describes his collection of true stories as 'Not for the squeamish'.
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