Tag: Blackburn
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THE BIRLEY STREET MONSTER (1948)
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Emily Holland, 1876; Alice Barnes, 1892 and Helen Chester, 1935. Just three children whose lives were cruelly taken from them at young ages, and the one thing they all had in common is the industrial town of Blackburn, in the north west of England. Emily was aged seven years old. …
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Who murdered little Helen Chester? (1935)
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“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” – Matthew 18:6 Not since 1849 when Frederick and Maria Manning had…
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THE MAN IN THE BARN : A GRANE ROAD MYSTERY (1909) | Local History S2 – Ep5
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Walking along the rain sodden path, the stranger could see in the near distance the silhouette of building. Hoping this would prove to be a somewhat ideal refuge, it may at least be of help to him to shelter from the rain that hadn’t stopped beating down for most of…
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THE TRAGIC TALE OF EMILY HOLLAND (1876) | True Crime – S1 E1
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*This article has been updated and re-uploaded. It was originally added to our site on the 25th July 2020 and was the very first episode to have appeared here. In today’s story, we are traveling back to Tuesday, the 20th of March, 1876, until the industrial town of Blackburn in…
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THE TRAGIC DEMISE OF ALICE BEETHAM (1912) | True Crime – S2 Ep9
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Today’s story has been recommended to me by Eddie Beetham, a direct descendant of Miss Alice Beetham with whom this next story is all about. Shortly after 8am on Tuesday, July 23rd 1912 – the sound of the tolling bell from inside Stangeways Gaol closed the final chapter of a…
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THE TRAGIC DEMISE OF ALICE BEETHAM (1912) | Blackburn
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Today’s story has been recommended to me by Eddie Beetham, a direct descendant of Miss Alice Beetham with whom this next story is all about. Shortly after 8am on Tuesday, July 23rd 1912 – the sound of the tolling bell from inside Stangeways Gaol closed the final chapter of a…
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THE TRAGIC TALE OF EMILY HOLLAND (1876) | Blackburn
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*This article has been updated and re-uploaded. It was originally added to our site on the 25th July 2020 and was the very first episode to have appeared here. In today’s story, we are traveling back to Tuesday, the 20th of March, 1876, until the industrial town of Blackburn in…
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THE TRAGIC TALE OF ALICE BARNES (1892) | Blackburn
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For those of you who have listened to previous true crime podcasts here on this site, you will have listened to the tragic case of Emily Holland – a 7 year old girl who was brutally attacked and then dismembered by a local barber by the name of William Fish.…
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ALICE BARNES | True Crime – S1 E5
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For those of you who have listened to previous true crime podcasts here on this site, you will have listened to the tragic case of Emily Holland – a 7 year old girl who was brutally attacked and then dismembered by a local barber by the name of William Fish.…