I love a walk around any churchyard and finding the different headstones depicting the names of people who have been buried there over the previous centuries. Perched high at the top of a ridge, St Peter’s can be seen for miles around. It’s tall tower is made of grey ashlar was built in the fourteenth […]
Bolton
The Execution of the Earl of Derby
One of the first books to be published in Bolton was ‘A Description of Sieges and Battles of the Civil War’. Printed J Drake in 1785 it includes a picture of the execution of the earl of Derby in Churchgate, Bolton, in 1651. This appears to be a line drawing showing the earl making his […]