Christian Mayne
Christian Mayne
Arundel Crescent, Plymouth
Coal cellars visible as old bomb site finally cleared for redevelopment
Cross Son & Co, Plymouth
Caroline Place, Stonehouse
Dartmoor 365, K17, Hound Tor
A Spring Saturday on Hound Tor when the mist suddenly descended.
Dartmoor 365, P6, Leather Tor & Sharpitor
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Moving Day, 2018
Roadside Burials of Suicide Victims
Until the passing of the Suicide Act 1961, Suicide was still a criminal offence in England and until 1882 suicides had to be buried on unconsecrated ground. In the seventeenth and eighteen century, those declared to have commited felo de se (the archaic term for suicide) were given a shameful burial, usually under cover of darkness with a stake driven through the body, and forfeited their estate to The Crown.
This map shows the locations of documented cases as and when found
Why were ...
Jacob Sallis of Littleport, Felo de Se, 1806
Until the passing of the Suicide Act 1961, Suicide was still a criminal offence in England and until 1882 suicides had to be buried on unconsecrated ground. In the seventeenth and eighteen century, those declared to have commited felo de se (the archaic term for suicide) were given a shameful burial, usually under cover of darkness with a stake driven through the body, and forfeited their estate to The Crown.
In 1806, the Oxford Journal reported the burial of Jacob Sallis of Littleport in ...
The Littleport Murder – Sarah Potts, 1863
From Cambridge Independent Press, Saturday 23 March 1863
Pavement Slab of the Year, 1964
Spotted in Ely
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