Caught in Blackheath: The notorious burglar, Charles Peace
Charles Peace (1832 – 1879) (Monarch: Victoria) In the last three months of his career, Peace had a criminal love affair with Blackheath....
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Sep 28, 202111 min
Dick Turpin | Notorious Local Highwaymen Series
Google Dick Turpin and there is always mention that he did some of his dastardly deeds around Shooter’s Hill and Blackheath. Is it all true?
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Sep 2, 20217 min
Henry Simms | Notorious Local Highwaymen Series
Henry was destined to become a thug because by the age of ten, he had given 'a specimen of his dishonest disposition'
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Aug 26, 202111 min
Blueskin and Honest Jack | Notorious Local Highwaymen Series
The story of Blueskin, Honest Jack, Edgworth Bess, and Jonathan Wild – the stuff of twists, turns, and corruption!
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Aug 19, 20217 min
The Gibbeting of Pirates and Mutineers
Does Greenwich have a pirate history? The maritime axis of the world had to have some links to marauding filibusters, surely?
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Aug 12, 20215 min
Claude Duval | Notorious Local Highwaymen Series
Claude arrives in England at seventeen, smack bang into the hedonistic "universal joy upon the return of the Royal family."
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Blackheath and Greenwich History Blog
Aug 5, 20216 min
The Setting |Notorious Local Highwaymen Series
Blackheath, yet again, was in for more mischief and mayhem.
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