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Are These Photos of the Same Lacey Everett?

by The Past on Paper | Oct 30, 2013 | Curiosities, On This Day, Photographs

I have two Carte de Visites, one seemingly of a young girl in a dress, around 3 years old, the other of a male in his early 20s. The photo of the girl appears to date from the 1860, and has the hand written inscription “Lacey Nussey Everett”. The photo of...

24th August 1867 – Murder of Sweet Fanny Adams

by christianmayne | Aug 24, 2013 | On This Day, Photographs

This Carte d’Visite depicts Lizzie Adams and her Friend Minnie Warner next to the grave of “Sweet” Fanny Adams, who was brutally mudered by 29 Year Old Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire on August 24th 1867. Lizzie and Minnie were out walking with...

11th July, 1811 – Birth of John Smith

by christianmayne | Jul 11, 2013 | On This Day

May 21st 1877 – Cows to Bull

by christianmayne | May 21, 2013 | On the Site, On This Day

From The Farming Diary of Thomas Goddard of Batcombe Farm, Somerset.

Birth of Florence Nightingale, 1820

by christianmayne | May 12, 2013 | On the Site, On This Day

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was...

26th March 1829 – Fen Drainage Receipt

by christianmayne | Mar 26, 2013 | Ephemera, On This Day

Eau Brink Drainage Receipt, March 1829, to Mr Graham.

Abbots Ripton Train Disaster

by christianmayne | Jan 21, 2013 | On the Site, On This Day

The Abbots Ripton rail disaster occurred on 21 January 1876 at Abbots Ripton, then in the county of Huntingdonshire, England, now in Cambridgeshire, on the Great Northern Railway main line, previously thought to be exemplary for railway safety. In the accident, the...

A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen

by christianmayne | Jan 18, 2013 | Curiosities, On This Day

From “A Handbook For Hanging” by Charles Duff, 1928, “Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Aspyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as...

18th December 1943 – Immorality in Norwich

by christianmayne | Dec 18, 2012 | Newspapers, On This Day

From The Daily Mirror, 18th December 1843

13th December 1795 – Wold Cottage Meteorite

by christianmayne | Dec 13, 2012 | On This Day

On 13th December 1795, the second largest meteorite ever to fall on England – weighing 56 pounds – fell on the grounds of The Wold Cottage, Wold Newton, East Yorkshire. The owner of Wold Cottage, Mr Edward Topham erected a monument to the falling of...

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Are These Photos of the Same Lacey Everett?

24th August 1867 – Murder of Sweet Fanny Adams

11th July, 1811 – Birth of John Smith

May 21st 1877 – Cows to Bull

Birth of Florence Nightingale, 1820

26th March 1829 – Fen Drainage Receipt

Abbots Ripton Train Disaster

A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen

18th December 1943 – Immorality in Norwich

13th December 1795 – Wold Cottage Meteorite

16th October 1872 – A Gipsy Advertisment in “The Times”

1st October 1872 – The Front page, 140 years ago.

25th September 1894 – Property Sale in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire

21st September 1803 – Birth of Mary Pugh

20th September 1904 – Birth of Irene Housden, Saffron Walden

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