Silverstealth
09-05-2009, 06:56 PM
I acquired these postcards today.
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff74/silverstealth_bucket/hindheadmurderarrestsm.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff74/silverstealth_bucket/hindheadmurdergibbetsm.jpg
The Devil's Punch Bowl and the adjoining Hindhead Commons cover an area of 1,600 acres and consist of some of the most extensive areas of lowland heath in the country, and as a large expanse of underdeveloped countryside is listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
A dominant prominence of sandstone overlooking the Punch Bowl was named Gibbet Hill (1) in the 18th century marking the hanging of three 'footpads' (2) who in 1786 murdered a sailor travelling alone along the Portsmouth to London road through what was then a wild and remote area, and who they had befriended in an inn in the area. Such was the public outcry at this cold blooded act on a sailor trying to return to his ship at Portsmouth that a memorial stone, which became known as the Sailor's Stone (GR: SU899359), was erected on the site of the murder in the same year. The murderers' bodies were tarred and hung in chains from a gibbet on the hill alongside the old road to serve as a warning.
The inscription on the stone reads:
Erected
In detestation of a barbarous Murder
Committed here on an unknown Sailor
On Sep. 24th 1786
By Edwd. Lonegon, Mick Cagy & Jas. Marshall
Who were all taken the fame day
And hung in Champs near this place
Whofe theddeth Man's Blood by man thall his
Blood be thed. Gen: Chap 9: Ver 6
http://weyriver.co.uk/theriver/wey_south_B.htm about a quarter of the page down.
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff74/silverstealth_bucket/hindheadmurderarrestsm.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff74/silverstealth_bucket/hindheadmurdergibbetsm.jpg
The Devil's Punch Bowl and the adjoining Hindhead Commons cover an area of 1,600 acres and consist of some of the most extensive areas of lowland heath in the country, and as a large expanse of underdeveloped countryside is listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
A dominant prominence of sandstone overlooking the Punch Bowl was named Gibbet Hill (1) in the 18th century marking the hanging of three 'footpads' (2) who in 1786 murdered a sailor travelling alone along the Portsmouth to London road through what was then a wild and remote area, and who they had befriended in an inn in the area. Such was the public outcry at this cold blooded act on a sailor trying to return to his ship at Portsmouth that a memorial stone, which became known as the Sailor's Stone (GR: SU899359), was erected on the site of the murder in the same year. The murderers' bodies were tarred and hung in chains from a gibbet on the hill alongside the old road to serve as a warning.
The inscription on the stone reads:
Erected
In detestation of a barbarous Murder
Committed here on an unknown Sailor
On Sep. 24th 1786
By Edwd. Lonegon, Mick Cagy & Jas. Marshall
Who were all taken the fame day
And hung in Champs near this place
Whofe theddeth Man's Blood by man thall his
Blood be thed. Gen: Chap 9: Ver 6
http://weyriver.co.uk/theriver/wey_south_B.htm about a quarter of the page down.