BODMIN JAIL. Working Gallows.

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  • @johnhammond4214
    @johnhammond4214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We visited here whilst on holiday last year and its well worth the money for the guided tour - very highly recommended

  • @davidlittlewood8850
    @davidlittlewood8850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Should be the busiest room in the country 🌹

  • @miriamaguilar7977
    @miriamaguilar7977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, that's pretty final. At least it's a safe sanctuary for some; to close one's eyes to this scene.

  • @michaelcampin1464
    @michaelcampin1464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Execution Chambers in Durham Prison are now the visitors cafeteria. The floor has been relaid but the trapdoor is still in place under the floor. I wonder what would happen if. ..........

    • @johnsmith-rs2vk
      @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't fall through the hole in the doughnut !

    • @raymondcowey1041
      @raymondcowey1041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Robert Moore Hah, Shades of Sweeney Todd

  • @Steven_Rowe
    @Steven_Rowe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Back in the 60s my dad went to buy some ropes for his work truck, the place was in Bermondsey and he told me how they made hangman's ropes and how they didn't have knots like in the Westerns like we all thought they did.
    This was in the mid to late 60s so for export to countries and yes still for the UK who still had a working Gallows in Wandsworth which was tested every 6 months.
    There is a video of it on TH-cam.
    Well my dad is dead and for some reason I googled it and sure enough a company called John Edgington was in Bermondsey
    All very interesting.
    In 1970 I saw the Film 10 Rillington place at the Odeon Nottinghill, rather ironic as that is where Rillington place was
    In the film they show Timothy Evans being hung and the rope was as my dad described.
    Would be interesting to know when they ceased making them

    • @alanstevens1296
      @alanstevens1296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They take a length of regular rope and they tie a hangman's noose in it.

    • @Steven_Rowe
      @Steven_Rowe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alanstevens1296 they don't tie any knot in the rope.
      The ropes were premanufactered with a half brass ferrule with their he rope past through it and the nose end was covered in kid leather.
      There was also a brass ferrule then on the other end so a hook EAS passed through it attached to a chain that was adjusted for length of drop.

    • @alanstevens1296
      @alanstevens1296 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Steven_Rowe
      I don't see why. It is easy to tie a noose,

    • @Steven_Rowe
      @Steven_Rowe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alanstevens1296 well you can clearly see the rope and ferrule in the video plus if you look at Peirrepoint videos you will see it too
      The fact is in the UK they used this type of specially designed rope.
      There is less friction with these ropes and also kid leather was around the noise end
      Also the noise was placed under the left jaw so when the prisoner dropped it came under the chin and snapped the head back snapping the neck
      From all I have read death was instantaneous and the whole pp rocess from entering the cell to dropping the prisoner took at most 15 seconds.
      No words said, just get it over quickly for the prisoner.

    • @alanstevens1296
      @alanstevens1296 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Steven_Rowe
      The warden should at least read the death warrant to the inmate and ask him if he has any last words. This is done in front of the gallows and then he is walked up the 13 steps.

      There should be witnesses to that and the execution.
      While it shouldn't be dragged out, it would take at least 5 minutes to do those things.
      They should hang a person -right-. That includes a good high-quality hemp rope and tieing a noose in it with 13 loops.

  • @geraldguillou6307
    @geraldguillou6307 ปีที่แล้ว

    Je suppose que la potence et la trappe sont toujours opérationnelles ?

  • @cornwallparanormalresearch2378
    @cornwallparanormalresearch2378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Big like 👍 👌

  • @sigridbohne
    @sigridbohne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice

  • @kernowforester811
    @kernowforester811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My home town, never been there. Not really my thing, human suffering is appalling. The new car park opposite for the gaol is a disgrace, currently closed, due a wrangles with the owners of the gaol. I was opposed to the building of the oversized private car park on public green land, used to walk through on the Camel Trail with my dogs, what a waste. Anyway, bizarre to have a gaol as a tourist attraction, there is more history in the town.

  • @jacquithomas6253
    @jacquithomas6253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love my visits to bodmin jail

  • @amancalledkev
    @amancalledkev ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This needs to be dusted off and made ready. There is much business to sort out regarding the tyrants in this country…

  • @von-Adler
    @von-Adler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Not much of a drop from the coiled rope!

    • @raymondcowey1041
      @raymondcowey1041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The thin piece of string tying the coil is broken by the weight of the body, releasing the full length of the rope. Could be between six to eight feet

  • @fabrizioadragna5881
    @fabrizioadragna5881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow

  • @MrAlanCBrown
    @MrAlanCBrown  2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please pop by my website albrownartist.com and take a look at some of my paintings! Al

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Follow me lad , it ' ll be alright .

    • @jonathanclayton9107
      @jonathanclayton9107 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I remember that in the movie. He had that fatherly appeal and seemed a decent man. He respected the dead cause he ensured each body had a coffin morbid by today's standards. He broke down at the end of the film I remember and never did another execution again. I think he was owed money from the government.

    • @margarita8442
      @margarita8442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      pierpoint really new how to string em up

    • @Steven_Rowe
      @Steven_Rowe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jonathanclayton9107 you need to remember it was a film and film makers use poetic licence.
      Was the real Peirrepoint fatherly???
      I don't know.
      What interests me is he clearly would have been aware of controversial cases and in 1953 when he hung Christie I wonder what he thought about the fact that he had hung Evans who was obviously wrongly convicted.
      Yes you can argue that he didn't convict Evans but he is still voluntarily part of the process.
      I think had I had been Peirrepoint I would have washed my hands of it
      We also don't know how he felt after he hung his mate.
      He also hung Bentley and he also must have been aware of the controversy over his execution.
      Bentley didn't kill the policeman and he said Chris let him have it.
      What that actually meant is open to debate
      Sadly he didn't say Chris let him have the gun.

    • @MrAlanCBrown
      @MrAlanCBrown  ปีที่แล้ว

      If interested read Albert's autobiography I think it's called a family business. He say's that the death penalty acted as revenge and never a deterrent therefore it's always been wrong! I agree!

  • @lcfodat1321
    @lcfodat1321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So should all murderers

  • @Marcfj
    @Marcfj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Disgusting!

    • @madmeerkat1158
      @madmeerkat1158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      should make more use of it.

    • @Marcfj
      @Marcfj ปีที่แล้ว

      @@madmeerkat1158 - You have a medieval mind that is incapable of evolving. After all, there are far more humane ways of executing criminals than breaking their necks and strangling them.