The Yorkshire Coiners: The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang

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The Yorkshire Coiners: The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang

The Yorkshire Coiners: The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang

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A stone's throw from Bell House was Lumb Hole Falls, where, from a giant boulder overlooking the valley below, it's rumoured Hartley would stand to regale his cronies . As we continued, we met a woman sitting on a bench looking at an expanse of green where, in the spring, bluebells will appear. Other factors also allowed this gang to thrive. In the 18th century, with no national police force, local constables had a minor role in law enforcement. Halifax had just two constables and the nearest magistrate was in Bradford. Also in the coiners’ favour was that much of the country’s money had been in circulation for many years and coins were so worn down it was difficult to spot fakes. The Coiners, led by 'King' David Hartley of Cragg Vale, near Hebden Bridge, obtained officially minted coins from bent officials, including the Deputy Constable of Halifax, Joseph Hanson. The gang would clip the edges of the coins, which was itself a capital offence, and use the clippings mixed with base ores to produce new coins.

Gold was clipped from the edges of a coin and the coin’s milled edges recreated by rolling and beating the edge of the coin along a file. The collected gold clippings were melted down to create a blank disc, which was then stamped with an impression using dies made of spelter, a zinc alloy. The genuine coins would be filed down to remove evidence of clipping while the counterfeit coins would be minted to resemble French, Spanish and Portuguese currency. European coins were accepted as legal tender at the time due to a shortage of Royal Mint coins in circulation.a b Claypole, Maurice (21 February 2023). The Coiner's Wife - A play in five acts: The untold story of Grace Hartley of Cragg Vale, wife of the infamous counterfeiter, 'King' David Hartley of the Yorkshire Coiners. LinguaBooks. ISBN 978-1-911369-62-2. Dodgy Yorkshire accents are at a minimum. The Gallows Pole's first-time actors were selected for their accents. Every day was a highlight. Working on this job was a bit of a religious experience, you have to give yourself to it and the flow of it, and I’ve liked that. You didn’t know what was going to happen each day, in terms of how we made it, because it was improv, so for me there were always little magic moments that you couldn’t predict or foresee in the scriptments, and you just go that’s magic, that’s the alchemy that is beautiful. So I enjoyed seeing those things pop up. Someone might do something or it might be a feeling, or it might be coming in to a space where the art department had just smashed it. I really enjoyed observing every day, the bits of magic the crew the team, the actors created. Olivia Pentelow Shane Meadows hotly anticipated drama about an 18th-century Calder Valley gang premieres on BBC Two on Wednesday. Finish him': How Cheetham Hill, Doddington, Gooch and Salford gangs waged war in Greater Manchester's pubs and clubs

For a few years, Normanton and Thomas escaped justice, in part thanks to the gang's rule of terror. While drinking in the Union Cross Inn, Heptonstall, a couple of Coiners overheard farmhand and Dighton's informer Abraham Ingham saying he knew who Dighton's killers were. For his trouble, the Coiners murdered Ingham by throwing him in the fire and pouring burning coal down his breaches. Viewers of a more delicate disposition might decry the wall-to-wall f***s, but this isn't Pride and Prejudice. The poor majority of 18th-century Britain effed and jeffed as much as it does today.The Cragg Vale Coiners, sometimes the Yorkshire Coiners, were a band of counterfeiters in England, based in Cragg Vale, near Hebden Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire. They produced debased gold coins in the late 18th century to supplement small incomes from weaving. Read next:• Life in the remote and unspoilt 'forgotten' Yorkshire village that really is a hidden treasure

The Gallows Pole is a fictionalised account of the Cragg Vale Coiners, a group of coin forgers who nearly capsized the British economy. It's a tale of desperate weavers supplementing their starvation earnings before greed took over with disastrous and murderous consequences. Vinter, Robyn (16 June 2023). " 'Definitely a lot busier': TV show lures visitors to coin gang's Yorkshire home". The Guardian. Most of the local population were involved in the weaving trade and the region produced high quality, hardwearing Worsted cloth. After a boom during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) the woollen industry in the West Riding of Yorkshire fell into decline during the post war recession, due to a reduced demand for the Worsted which had been used largely for military uniforms. In August 1768 the Leeds Intelligencer reported the circulation of counterfeit Guineas and in March 1769 the Leeds Mercury reported that it was thought a gang of Coiners numbering ‘half a score’ was operating in the Halifax area. When the trial of Dighton’s murderers took place, the case against Thomas and Normanton could not be proved because of unreliable evidence. Both men were acquitted.

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Coins scattered on the grave of 'King' David Hartley, leader of the Cragg Vale Coiners (Image: Andy Stenning/Daily Mirror) It was also announced that A24 are teaming up with Element Pictures (The Favourite, Normal People) on the six-part series for the BBC which is currently filming in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Isaac Hartley, David Hartley's brother, lived at Elphaborough Hall, Mytholmroyd. Recruited Matthew Normanton and Robert Thomas to kill William Dighton



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