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Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family struggled ...
Jun 23, 2019 · Albert Pierrepoint was the most prolific and famous hangman in British history. The death penalty was abolished in Great Britain in 1965 but before that Pierrepoint had become something of a strange celebrity.
Sep 19, 2021 · Diminutive, always immaculately-dressed and with a penchant for cigars, boxing and coin tricks, Pierrepoint became a publican in 1946. He quit working for a grocer to become licensee of the Help The Poor Struggler alehouse at 303 Manchester Road, Oldham.
Jun 2, 2024 · Albert Pierrepoint offered a warm welcome and a friendly face to anyone calling into the pub for a pint or a bite to eat. But behind the smile lay Lancashire's most prolific killer, clocking up more than 600 executions to his name.
Jun 30, 2019 · Corbitt had been in Pierrepoint's pub the night he went on to strangle his sometime girlfriend Eliza Wood in a jealous rage at her flat in Ashton-under-Lyne. And it was the landlord who was...
Feb 11, 2019 · The meeting marked the point at which Albert Pierrepoint’s two worlds - jovial Oldham publican by night, clinical state hangman in his spare time - collided.
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Sep 14, 2023 · On one December day, Pierrepoint hanged 13 people before lunch. For years afterwards Pierrepoint was anonymously sent £5 in an envelope at Christmas, along with a note with one word on it -...
