BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

40th year  -  N° 339                 Friday, 5 December 2025         Antwerpen		
Only the Lonely
Strangeways Prison

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Related events:

  1. Tuesday 19th of November 1878 (-) Murderer James M'Gowan is executed by hanging by William Marwood.

  2. Monday 28th of November 1881 (-) Murderer John Simpson is executed by hanging by William Marwood.

  3. Monday 26th of November 1883 (-) Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging.

  4. Monday 24th of November 1884 (-) Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging.

  5. Monday 24th of November 1884 (-) Murderer Harry Swindells is executed by hanging.

  6. Tuesday 28th of November 1893 (-) Murderer Emanuel Hamar is executed by hanging.

  7. Tuesday 27th of November 1894 (-) Murderer James Whitehead is executed by hanging.

  8. Tuesday 13th of April 1920 (-) Murderer Frederick Holt is executed by hanging.

  9. Thursday 24th of June 1926 (-) Double murderess Louie Calvert is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint.

  10. Thursday 6th of December 1928 (-) Murderer Chung-yi Miao is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint.

  11. Tuesday 12th of May 1936 (-) Physician and murderer Buck Ruxton is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint.
    Ruxton was executed despite a petition urging clemency for him from Lancaster residents having collected over 10.000 signatures.

  12. Thursday 27th of February 1947 (-) Double murderer Walter Rowland is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint.

  13. Wednesday 12th of January 1949 (-) Murderess Margaret Allen is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint.

  14. Tuesday 28th of November 1950 (-) Murderer James Corbitt is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint.
    Corbitt knew his hangman even before he committed the crime. At the time of the murder he was a frequent customer in Pierrepoint’s pub 'Help The Poor Struggler' on Manchester Road in the Hollinwood area of Oldham.

  15. Friday 18th of September 1953 (-) Murderess Louisa Merrifield is executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint.
    Merrifield was the fourth and last woman to be executed at the prison.

  16. Wednesday 28th of November 1962 (-) Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging by Harry Allen.
    Smith used a total of 5 glass screw-top Wild Bros Orangeade and Cherryade bottles, each of which shattered to pieces, to club 58-year-old Isabella Cross to death in her sweetshop at the corner of Hulme Hall Lane and Iron Street on 4 May.

  17. Thursday 13th of August 1964 (-) Murderer Gwynne Evans is executed by hanging by Harry Allen.
    Evans' was one of the last two judicial executions of death sentences in the United Kingdom.