Episode 2 - Murder at the Malt Mill

No Heathen Land

English - August 21, 2021 20:28 - 41 minutes - 80.8 MB
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Welcome back to No Heathen Land.

In this episode I talk to my friend Josh Flint about a scandalous murder in Armley, Leeds in 1856

Sources Josh mentioned/ used for his research:

Armley Through the Ages, The Armley Society, 1983:

https://leeds.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/libraryonline/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:14365/one?qu=armley+through+the+ages&te=ILS

Leeds Intelligencer, 13th September 1856

Leeds Mercury, 13th September 1856

Leeds Times, 27th December 1856

You can find old newspapers at your closest Local History Library or online (subscriptions apply) at the British Newspaper Archive on Ancestry or Find My Past Most Library services will offer online access to newspaper archives like this one from Leeds Libraries.

Photograph of The Malt Mill 1903:

https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/62689

photograph of the Royal Hotel (to the left) on Town Street in Armley, The Malt Mill became the Royal Hotel in 1906:

https://www.leodis.net/viewimage/113610

Information on the origins of handcuffing criminals (as we know it now at least):

https://tihk.co/blogs/news/14756441-a-history-of-handcuffs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcuffs

https://www.blueline.ca/a_history_of_handcuffs-2396/

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