Between 1835 and 1867 31 people were hanged in public at Kirkdale gaol in Liverpool before crowds ranging from 500 to 100,000. This book details the circumstanc

After the Capital Punishment Amendment Act of 1868 the grisly spectacle of public hangings at Kirkdale gaol in North Liverpool was no more. The gaol though rema

Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fear

A look at the dark side of life in Liverpool in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Over the years the high walls of Liverpool's Walton Gaol have contained some of the most infamous criminals from the north of England. Taking over from the fear