Results tagged “OId Bailey records”

WE’RE all aware that Docklands has a colourful past but one new website gives an insight into what it was really like in ye olde Isle of Dogs.

Murder, riots and one poor soul who was sentenced to death for interfering with a cow, are all included in the Old Bailey records of 1674 to 1913, which were released last week.

But one crime, which helped form the docks of today and saw the perpetrators facing long periods in prison or being shipped off to a harsh life in Australia, was the heinous activity of… sugar theft.