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Engraving of Brixton Causeway, at the time when the greater part of the district was a broad expanse of green fields. A newspaper report of 1730 also records it as a site of gallows: 'The Bodies of Blewit and Burnworth, who were hang'd in Chains in St George's Fields for the Murder of Mr Ball, were on Wednesday taken down, and one of 'em was hung up on the old Gibbet on Bristow [Brixton] Causeway; and the other on Kennington Common, on the Gibbet where Berry, (one of the same gang) now hangs.Published in 'Lambeth Guide' 1951.

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Collection:	Local History Library
Image type:	Engraving
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Ref:	03631
Identifier:	12/p.32
Date:	1789

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