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hollydog 27-12-2017 05:20 PM

Braid Gibbett
 
I have been looking with no success for information regarding a film from the late 70s which featured the now long gone pole about 50 yards north of the old green boat shed on the Braid. Each morning and night for about a month around 1978 I saw from the school bus a replica gibbett attached to said pole with a cage hanging from it. I was told it was to do with - William Jobling, from Jarrow, was the last man to be gibbeted in England in August, 1832
Anyone recall this film prop?

Coquet 28-12-2017 02:23 PM

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The BBC did a programme about the murder "Farewell Jobling" which was a shown on 'Network' on BBC 2 on 4th June 1977. This was from 'BBC North East' originally. Could it have been 1977?

hollydog 28-12-2017 04:15 PM

Thankyou, most likely! It was there for about a month iirc. Pity no photos have appeared yet, it was an eerie looking scene on the mud at low tide

Coquet 28-12-2017 05:29 PM

Th BFI has the programme details but no video yet. It might end up online eventually?

Coquet 28-12-2017 07:15 PM

On the subject of Tyneside or rather Newcastle I did transcribe a book the other week and stick it on the other website. It appears to be absent from elsewhere on the internet:

"The Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne".. etc 1807. A little before Jobling's time.

It is out of our jurisdiction but it does include a layman's visit to East Kenton Colliery. I assume things would be similar elsewhere in Northumberland pits at the time. This colliery curiously had a 3 mile access tunnel from the staiths on the Tyne and was popular with lady visitors as you did not have to descend down the shaft to get in. (last chapter on the webpage " DESCRIPTION OF A VISIT TO A COAL MINE.")

I wonder if the tunnel is still open?? (was Kitty's Drift according to this) "Kitty's Drift, an underground railway was apparently built from East Kenton Colliery to staiths on the Tyne in 1770. A subterranean tunnel and the colliery ("Kenton E.t") is shown on Lambert's map of 1807. " Lambert's Map online


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