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  1. Feb 9, 2024 · Hurt was later to recall that Pierrepoint had no compunction in making off-colour jokes about his former trade on set, while the actress Diana Dors wrote in her memoirs that she had...

  2. Nov 28, 2008 · James Henry Corbitt was a regular at “Help the Poor Struggler”, the piquantly named Oldham pub Pierrepoint bought and managed after World War II. Known as “Tish” to Pierrepont’s “Tosh,” the two had sung a duet of “Danny Boy” on the night that Corbitt went out and murdered his girlfriend in a jealous rage.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jun 2, 2024 · In the late 1950s, visitors to The Rose and Crown in Much Hoole were greeted by the smiling face of a welcoming landlord. Albert Pierrepoint offered a warm welcome and a friendly face to anyone calling into the pub for a pint or a bite to eat.

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  8. Oct 16, 2018 · At just before 9am at Pentonville Prison on 15th July 1953 and with his arms already pinioned behind his back, John Reginald Halliday Christie complained that he had an itchy nose. The hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, told him not to worry too much, ‘it won’t bother you for long,’ he said.

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