Pies and Prejudice by Maconie Stuart

Author:Maconie, Stuart [Maconie, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Random House UK
Published: 2009-12-22T16:00:00+00:00

While trying to earwig this exchange, I pretend to look in a book of old photographs and find myself drawn in. There's a fantastic picture of a Failsworth milliner with a giant sign overlooking the canal that reads 'Finest Stetson Hats'. How popular were they in 1950s Oldham, I wonder? A steeplejack called Joe Ball built a castle with ramparts and towers and gargoyles in the middle of a terraced street. Someone demolished it in 1961. How could they?

Finally, there's a picture of the famous and now disappeared Help the Poor Straggler pub, whose landlord was one Albert Pierrepoint. Albert helped more than a few poor stragglers in his time; helped them struggling all the way to the gallows and trapdoor. He was Britain's last hangman.

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