So who was Thomas Palin?
So who was Thomas Palin?
Plans to commemorate a little know chapter in our local history edge forward.
“On Saturday last, Thomas Palin, convicted at our late Assizes of a felonious riot near Wellington was executed in front of the County Gaol in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The behaviour of the unhappy man to the last moment was firm and becoming his situation” – The Salopian Journal of 11 April 1821
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They certainly knew how to punish them. Nowadays they’d probably stick them in the jacuzzi at the local health centre