The following site shows a busy central Manchester street scene in the early 1900's.   Its simply amazing how this Copper can control  the traffic.        http://youtu.be/z0QkJNqYpFM  Mike Morris Toronto Canada

From: Mike Morris <morrisind@rogers.com> To: SEND MAIL MANCHESTER <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Subject: [ENG-MAN] : Manchester street scene Send reply to: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com > The following site shows a busy central Manchester street scene in > the early 1900's.  > >  Its simply amazing how this Copper can control  the traffic.     >    http://youtu.be/z0QkJNqYpFM > > >  Mike Morris > Toronto Canada> Many thanks for drawing our attention to this site, Mike. I hadn't come across it before but I've now bookmarked it because it has a number of very interesting films on it - not least of which are some showing Bradford, where I was born, and Halifax where I grew up and had my first job (if a true-blue Yorkshireman may apologise for intruding on a Lancashire List!) -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Hello listers My great great great grandfather, Peter MORGAN, was found guilty of aiding and abetting a manslaughter in 1835. The incident happened in Bradford, Manchester but the trial took place in the County Assizes in Liverpool. It struck me that this was quite some distance to travel in those days and I wondered if there were not any county assizes in Manchester or Salford at that time. Does anyone have any more knowledge of this? Just in case any of these names ring bells with other listers, Peter MORGAN was tried alongside James ROBINSON, Robert CLARKSON, Thomas MCKEAN and Jacob BERRESFORD and the victim was James MATHER HOPE. Joanne

Possible motivation was just an excuse to ride the new and worlds first passenger train coupled with a defendants plea to change venue out of Manchester. ( Pure guess ) Colin -----Original Message----- From: Joanne Humphrey Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 5:38 PM To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-MAN] : Criminal Court Query Hello listers My great great great grandfather, Peter MORGAN, was found guilty of aiding and abetting a manslaughter in 1835. The incident happened in Bradford, Manchester but the trial took place in the County Assizes in Liverpool. It struck me that this was quite some distance to travel in those days and I wondered if there were not any county assizes in Manchester or Salford at that time. Does anyone have any more knowledge of this? Just in case any of these names ring bells with other listers, Peter MORGAN was tried alongside James ROBINSON, Robert CLARKSON, Thomas MCKEAN and Jacob BERRESFORD and the victim was James MATHER HOPE. Joanne :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. Please SNIP when replying. Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Colin I love the idea that the trial happened in Liverpool because of the chance to travel by train but I wonder whose choice that would have been - surely not the defendants? Joanne Sent from my iPhone On 2 Feb 2013, at 13:12, "Colin Harrison" <ireddog@infowest.com> wrote: > Possible motivation was just an excuse to ride the new and worlds first > passenger train coupled with a defendants plea to change venue out of > Manchester. ( Pure guess ) > > Colin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joanne Humphrey > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 5:38 PM > To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ENG-MAN] : Criminal Court Query > > Hello listers > > My great great great grandfather, Peter MORGAN, was found guilty of aiding > and abetting a manslaughter in 1835. The incident happened in Bradford, > Manchester but the trial took place in the County Assizes in Liverpool. It > struck me that this was quite some distance to travel in those days and I > wondered if there were not any county assizes in Manchester or Salford at > that time. Does anyone have any more knowledge of this? > > Just in case any of these names ring bells with other listers, Peter MORGAN > was tried alongside James ROBINSON, Robert CLARKSON, Thomas MCKEAN and Jacob > BERRESFORD and the victim was James MATHER HOPE. > > Joanne > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. > > Please SNIP when replying. > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message