Some dark yet interesting history

Rare photo of Newcastle Gaol, one of the largest and harshest jails in the country through the 1600/1800s.
St James' Park was built on the Southernly grounds of Castle Leazes where many prisoners where sent to death via capital punishment.
If the Gallowgate at St James' Park rings a bell, that's because it was named after the “Gallows Hole” a site in which St James Park was built upon!
The “Gallows Hole” was a place of brutal and prolific public execution including 22 people being hung in just one day in 1650.
You may think that only the worst of criminals were sent to the Gallows Hole but you'd be wrong. Such was the extent of our historic brutality that people, aged between 13-70 where hung for things as menial as forging a bank note or stealing a Horse. Witches where also hung from the site on a reported daily basis.
The last hanging took place in 1844, only three decades before the first ball was kicked at the site. The man was named Mark Sherwood who was convicted of murdering his Wife. Mark was taken by cart to the gallows, in front of the elegant Leazes Terrace, whilst being sat up-right upon his coffin!
Hangings still took place in Newcastle in the 1900s with John Dickman being the last man to be executed in 1910, however, they stopped using the Gallows Hole after the execution of Sherwood due to two things, the controversy surrounding the hanging of Sherwood and the construction of St James Park on the Gallows Hole site.

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