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Post by rocles on May 13, 2008 16:51:10 GMT -1
Do any of you Gortonians know the history of Murder Lane? It was, as I recall, a dirt path which led from Pink Bank Lane to Buckley rd. It had, I think, one dim gas lamp and was beside the river Gore which surfaced there on its journey from Sunny Brow Park to wherever (Platt Fields?) We used to walk it from North Rd. Co-op after a nights dancing there and it was really eerie. My girl friend would cling to me, she never knew I was as scared as her.  Bill I can't help with its history, but when I was a kid in the '60s, we called it The Red Path. Certainly there was always a warning not to go there, and also that a Murder had occured there. seem to remember it being very narrow and very steep...just enough room to ride a bike down there Les ( Ex- East Rd ) |
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Post by Casso on May 13, 2008 20:33:40 GMT -1
MURDER LANE: I've just checked A History of Gorton & Openshaw by Ernest France, and here's the brief entry:
From the Gorton Openshaw and Bradford Reporter, 10.7.1909.
Mark Shawcross, aged 39, a labourer of Gorton, was sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Emily Ramsbottom, aged 27, of Ellesmere Street, Gorton. The body was found by a number of young women going to their work at Messrs Turner's tarpaulin works off Pink Bank Lane. It was lying in a lane near the Sewage Works off Brook Road.
Mr France adds: The lane, in which the body of Mrs Ramsbottom was found, was in fact Knutsford Vale, which for many years after was known as Murder Lane. The Sewage Works was off Mount Road not Brook Road.
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Post by lin on Sept 8, 2008 15:30:05 GMT -1
HI LES, AND WELCOME TO MANMATES.  |
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