carcrash Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 There was one at wybourn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowler Posted November 9, 2004 Author Share Posted November 9, 2004 Where at wybourn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carcrash Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 I'm not sure, I remember a history lesson from school about it. The reason they used wybourn was because you could see it from most of the surrounding area and it was a warning to other people. Wybourn took its name from tyburn in london and the name changed over the course of time. the same thing happened in york. their tyburn was on York race course. Sheffield also had a gibbet which was placed on attercliffe common which where the body was left to hang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Originally posted by Cycleracer A lotta criminals were topped there. bloody bike thieves......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Originally posted by carcrash I'm not sure, I remember a history lesson from school about it. The reason they used wybourn was because you could see it from most of the surrounding area and it was a warning to other people. Wybourn took its name from tyburn in london and the name changed over the course of time. the same thing happened in york. their tyburn was on York race course. Sheffield also had a gibbet which was placed on attercliffe common which where the body was left to hang. suppose thats where the noose n gibbet boozer got its name....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 i knew there was a gibbet on attercliffe and one on loxley common but they were for hanging dead criminals in as a deterant,a gallows is for executing criminals,never heard of one in sheffield before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 There must have been one at "Broughton Lane" in attercliffe co,s they named it after the Highwayman "Broughton" who was hung there..so I've heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Originally posted by Timbuck There must have been one at "Broughton Lane" in attercliffe co,s they named it after the Highwayman "Broughton" who was hung there..so I've heard. As far as I know, there wasn't actually a gibbett there at Attercliffe/ Garbrook, although I could be wrong... I always believed that , from at least the 1700's, that criminal executions mostly took place at York, or Tyburn /Newgate prison.. (at least until jeremy bentham's prison reforms, when the prison accommodation increased) I thought that the pub that is now called the "Noose and Gibbet"was called the Enfield, previously... and that the Noose was only named so, in recent years, because of wanting to "cash-in" of the notoriety of the highwayman, Broughton, after whom I believe Broughton Lane was named... PT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecee Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Originally posted by slh73 Wasnt there one near the arena, where the Noose and Gibbet pub got its name from? anybody who is interested in this can see details here :- http://www.made-in-sheffield.com/people/spencebroughton.htm deecee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Originally posted by Timbuck There must have been one at "Broughton Lane" in attercliffe co,s they named it after the Highwayman "Broughton" who was hung there..so I've heard. spence broughton was found guilty of robbing the mail he was executed in york and returned to the gibbet at the scene of his crime,attercliffe common,which in those days was a lonely strech of road on the way to rotherham,his body was coated in pitch to make it last longer,the gibbet was a steel cage,his wife stayed in lodgings for many years till his body finally fell to pieces,the gibbet post was taken by a local landowner and its reputed to have been built into his house as a support beam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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