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Cross Bones graveyard: the repositioned gates

Photos by Paul Slade (August 2014)
 
Cross Bones
Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Sources & Footnotes

Murder Ballads
Stagger Lee

Frankie & Johnny

Knoxville Girl

Hattie Carroll

Tom Dooley

Pearl Bryan

Pretty Polly

Poor Ellen Smith

Murder of the Lawson Family

Art by Roger Langridge

Demon in a Bottle

Wratten Family Murders

Peaky Blinders gallows ballad

Nasra Ismail

British Broadsides

Bushranger Ballads

Burke & Hare Ballad Sheets

Singers' views on these songs

Secret London
The Giants' Wedding

Treasure Hunt Riots

Necropolis Railway

Lobby Lud

First Great Radio Hoax

The Borough Mystery

Cross Bones Graveyard

Whitefield's soul trap

Jackson draws on city lore

Coronavirus street art

London's BLM street art

Ukraine war street art

Boris Johnson street art

Lamp-post protest art

Parliamentary Archives Trip

Miscellany
Black Swan Blues

A Georgia Lynching

Texas Easter Fires

Kit Williams' Masquerade

Superheroes
in Court

NYC Murals

Insect Horror Comics

Andy Capp

Hell Money

Heartbreak Hotel

The Unknown Alex

Moshpit Memories

More Moshpit Memories

Gerhard's Art

A Cabinet of Curiosities

London charity shops bookhunt

Could be Verse...

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The return of Jawbone

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