On the morning of Friday, 2nd December 1904, the people of Burnley, would be shocked to their very core when […]
The Morecambe Bay Tragedy (1894)
On the morning of Monday, 3rd September, 1894 – 34 passengers made their way onto a sail-powered boat that would, […]
The Brutal Attack on Thomas Oxford (1889)
When 16 year old, Thomas Oxford, began loading his cart with milk churns, he could never have envisioned the events […]
The Strange Case of James Walker (1889)
The walk from Smiths Place Farm, that was situated just on the outskirts of the small village of Huncoat, to […]
The Bizarre Death of Alice Nuttall (1856)
Huncoat is a small village situated in Lancashire in the North West of England and is located towards the east […]
Lost Innocence – The Shocking True Story of William Willan and Peter Kennedy (1892)
For at least twenty years, youth gangs had become a prominent and menacing way of life within parts of Manchester […]