More extracts from Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
‘During the war…the ‘black market’ and the racketeers who ran it, in big towns and cities, were known as spivs. Eathorpe was ...
The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of 1855 saw charges of passing on counterfeit coins against Richard Broome and Robert Kent. The depositions from the archives reveal what appears to be a ...