The mass expression of grief following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 looms large in the memory – but it’s far from the only moment of national mourning in history…
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Items from the execution kit that Pierrepoint used throughout his 25-year career featured several grisly tools, including his cloth execution hoods, which will now go for sale.
At 9am on July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis was led out to the scaffold at HMP Holloway to meet the legendary hangman Albert Pierrepoint and became the last woman hanged in the UK.
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An ancient and atmospheric home with a swimming pool and converted barn has appeared on the market near Buntingford. Penny Churchill takes a look.
With its 42 conservation areas and 4,000 listed buildings, the East Hertfordshire District boasts a rich and vibrant built heritage that showcases the best of English architecture through the ages. Even more impressive, perhaps, given the area’s proximity to London, is the way in which successive generations have managed to maintain a clear distinction between the built environment of its historic towns and villages and the surrounding countryside.
Set amid the rolling hills and fields of north-east Hertfordshire, just north of the Roman road known as Stane Street, the village of Cottered, three miles from Buntingford and 15 miles from Bishop’s Stortford, is typical of the area with its lush open spaces and long central village green. At the heart of the small, Y-shaped village, at the junction of the ro