Derby

Derbyshire

England

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The first Gaol to be opened in Derby was centrally sited, in the Cornmarket in 1652. Before this, those to be tried or held before execution were taken 15 miles away, to Nottingham Castle. The three goals that followed, were located in what is now, the Friar Gate Conservation Area.

Criminals seemed undeterred even in the face of harsh justice. In Derby alone from 1756 to 1907, 58 people were executed, 56 men and 2 women. It would have been 60, but two brothers, John, and Benjamin Jones, committed suicide before their execution, cheating the executioner of his fee. Most were hanged, for crimes that seem petty now, even for lighting a haystack but serious offenses such as multiple murders and infanticide, carried the penalty of hanging then dissection or hanging and gibbeting.

EVP Transcriptions

EVP 1: I am in your bedroom Tracey. George.

EVP 2: Nigel Mudd.

EVP 3: Would there have been a fire in my Billy's body.

EVP 4: And we won't be leaving jail bond with you.

EVP 5: I'm here for you.

EVP 6: Don't let her met the burglar.

EVP 7: Gunsmoke.

EVP 8: I want the jailer.

EVP 9: Brother, the second voice is usually 19th century too.

EVP 10: Got to repay the authorities.

EVP 11: I have screamed behind the door.

EVP 12: I want it white.

EVP 13: There aint no point moving her. Nobody will listen.

EVP 14: I'll have to burn her.

EVP 15: We will inform.

EVP 16: So long you have ever been away from here Rachel. Are you ignoring Percy?

EVP 17: Mind the door.

EVP 18: All this time tar boiling.

EVP 19: I, I been gibbeted.