People and Stories

Select a story from the list below:

• Thomas Holden
• The Lancaster Martyrs
• The Lancashire Witch trials of 1612
• George and Elizabeth Youngson
• George Lyon - The Up Holland Highwayman
• Stephen Cropper: A Debtor's Story
• Murder Trials
• Guides' Histories

Murder Trials

On Monday August 21st 1826 two brothers, Alexander and Michael McKean went to the gallows in Lancaster for the murder of Elizabeth Bate.

• The McKeans
• "We are all innocent" The Pendleton Murders 1817