Winter's Gibbet, Elsdon, Northumbria
Winter's Gibbet on the Morpeth Road, Elsdon, Northumbria. William Winter was hanged in Newcastle for murdering Margaret Grozier in 1791. His body was then here and hung until it rotted away. Legend says that his ghost haunts the moors surrounding this gibbet
Picture No
10698389
Media ID
46538204
Size
3000px x 4798px
(1.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1920s
