Were they ever any gallows in Sheffield?

[alevans 10]

Thanks for the pic, very interesting.

Al

[bluebird62 10]

suppose thats where the noose n gibbet boozer got its name.......

I could not tell you where the pub got its name, but it was nothing to do with the gibbett which was found in the back yard of the yellow lion. on clifton street. people just assume that broughton lane had some gallows but it never had. Attercliffe started out as fields and meadows with cattle and sheep, the only pubs were the old pheasant which was very small and the carbrookhall, which was the half size of the buliding.

[DavidRa 10]

Does any one know if there were gallows in sheffield at any time and where they were?

 

I've tried to find out but to no avail.

I do not know, one person with your surnname Fowler was hanged though about 80 years ago

[saxon51 10]

SEE THIS ENGRAVING FROM 18th C

 

Cows and gibbet on Attercliffe Common

Landmarks include; Carbrook Hall, Arrow Inn

[Fowler 10]

I do not know, one person with your surnname Fowler was hanged though about 80 years ago

 

If memory serves right it was 2 Fowlers. Wilfred and Lawrence. There's an earlier post around if you want more info.

[Fowler 10]

Bit more info here DavidRa. If your interested....

 

1925

September 3rd:

Wilfred FOWLER (23)

 

Hung in Leeds

 

Wilfred Fowler and his elder brother, Lawrence, led a gang of Sheffield toughs who specialised in instilling terror into local shopkeepers and generally impersonating the American gangster. Events that were to lead them to the scaffold began at the end of April when there was a disturbance in a city centre public house. Trimmer Welsh, the muscle behind the gang, was causing a scene with the new barmaid in a pub. He went to strike her for refusing his advances but was warned off by William Plommer. a former boxer. The two men squared up, and having no fear of the gang's reputation. Plommer beat the man senseless. On the following day. the gang. out for revenge, cornered Plommer as he stood talking to another former boxer, Jack Clay. The altercation ended when Clay beat Wilf Fowler unsconscious. This loss of face called for drastic action and the next day, the gang went to Plommer's house and called him into the street. A scuffle took place, ending with Plommer lying in a heap on the ground. The gang had attacked him with knives, chains and clubs, and he died from his injuries a short time later. There was an initial reluctance by witnesses to testify against the Fowler gang, but under assurance from an Inspector Sillitoe, who had been given the task of cleaning up the city, that they would be safe from reprisals, the police soon had enough evidence to arrest seven members of the gang on a murder charge. Their four day trial took place at Yorkshire Assizes before Mr Justice Finlay in July and ended in the death sentence being passed on the Fowler brothers, while three others were convicted of manslaughter. The remaining two were found not guilty. Wilfred Fowler was hanged alongside BOSTOCK by Thomas Pierrepoint, Robert Wilson, and Henry Pollard. Lawrence Fowler was hanged the following day.

 

The actual murder happened on Princess street on the top end of attercliffe.

[DavidRa 10]

Bit more info here DavidRa. If your interested....

 

1925

September 3rd:

Wilfred FOWLER (23)

 

Hung in Leeds

 

Wilfred Fowler and his elder brother, Lawrence, led a gang of Sheffield toughs who specialised in instilling terror into local shopkeepers and generally impersonating the American gangster. Events that were to lead them to the scaffold began at the end of April when there was a disturbance in a city centre public house. Trimmer Welsh, the muscle behind the gang, was causing a scene with the new barmaid in a pub. He went to strike her for refusing his advances but was warned off by William Plommer. a former boxer. The two men squared up, and having no fear of the gang's reputation. Plommer beat the man senseless. On the following day. the gang. out for revenge, cornered Plommer as he stood talking to another former boxer, Jack Clay. The altercation ended when Clay beat Wilf Fowler unsconscious. This loss of face called for drastic action and the next day, the gang went to Plommer's house and called him into the street. A scuffle took place, ending with Plommer lying in a heap on the ground. The gang had attacked him with knives, chains and clubs, and he died from his injuries a short time later. There was an initial reluctance by witnesses to testify against the Fowler gang, but under assurance from an Inspector Sillitoe, who had been given the task of cleaning up the city, that they would be safe from reprisals, the police soon had enough evidence to arrest seven members of the gang on a murder charge. Their four day trial took place at Yorkshire Assizes before Mr Justice Finlay in July and ended in the death sentence being passed on the Fowler brothers, while three others were convicted of manslaughter. The remaining two were found not guilty. Wilfred Fowler was hanged alongside BOSTOCK by Thomas Pierrepoint, Robert Wilson, and Henry Pollard. Lawrence Fowler was hanged the following day.

 

The actual murder happened on Princess street on the top end of attercliffe.

Thanks interesting living in Attercliffe in those days

[carcrash 11]

It was called Little Chicago at the time.

Inspector Sillitoe went on to work with the Flying Squad (the sweeney) after developing the tactics in Sheffield.

The Sheffield gang wars has got the full story about what happened in Attercliffe and Sky Edge.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0950764507/202-1774989-0815068?v=glance&n=266239

[thecliffe 10]

Does any one know if there were gallows in sheffield at any time and where they were?

 

I've tried to find out but to no avail.

 

Yes...........On Broughton Lane, when it was just a country lane, a highwayman called Broughton used to rob passing coaches and people on horse back. He was eventually caught and hanged from a gibet. I believe the pub opposite the arena has something outside on these lines.

[Treatment 10]

Yes...........On Broughton Lane, when it was just a country lane, a highwayman called Broughton used to rob passing coaches and people on horse back. He was eventually caught and hanged from a gibet. I believe the pub opposite the arena has something outside on these lines.

 

Yes, my Grandad told me that. It was a boozer called the Broughton Arms. It was Spence Broughton.

 

Some bugger pinched it though.

[smudger14086 10]

wadsley common a distant relative of my mrs was one of the last people to be hanged there!

[Treatment 10]

Yes, my Grandad told me that. It was a boozer called the Broughton Arms. It was Spence Broughton.

 

Some bugger pinched it though.

 

What Depoix says, earlier in this, is almost exactly the way that my Grandad described. Spence Broughton's wife hung around (no pun intended) and paid men to get her husband's body back because she loved him that much.