another step back in time
 
one hundred years before the demise of Mary Blandy and before the Tyburn slip knot was widely used a serving wench of North Oxfordshire was hung for infanticide at Oxford Castle.  Her name is Anne Green and her messy strangulation at the noose took half an hour.  The story was not to end there as the rope was not enough to cut her up.  Follow this space to find out what happens next to 22 year old Anne Green in the 1650s and some of the dark secrets that surround her.
 
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011