Victorian Bournemouth (166) analyses and discusses theft cases heard by local magistrates which resulted in imprisonment.
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Victorian Bournemouth (142): a local long firm
Victorian Bournemouth (142) investigates the report of a criminal long-firm operating in the resort during the 1870s.
Victorian Bournemouth (119): mob violence (1)
Circling the family’s wagons Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (119) marks the first of several articles analysing a riot which happened on Windham Road, Springbourne, in 1878. During this, a mob tried to harm Arthur Adams, tailor, a court witness and set his house alight. This article arranges the events along a timeline extracted from several witness […]