Cragg Vale Coiners

Cragg Vale

'My favourite part of Yorkshire is where criminals hung out in the 18th Century'
Sam Ford is one of Yorkshire’s leading dancers, and he and his partner Anna Holmes run the acclaimed Leeds dance company Northern Rascals. Sam graduated with a ...

Heptonstall Museum

Volunteer-run Yorkshire museum's stunning success in six months

The Cross Inn, in Heptonstall

Pub of the Week: The Cross Inn, Heptonstall

Bell House was the small farm owned by David Hartley, leader of the Cragg Vale Coiners

Owner of barn once owned by Cragg Vale Coiners leader applies to build extension

The Stagmen and David Hartley (Michael Socha) in The Gallows Pole. Picture: BBC/Element Pictures (GP) Limited/Objective Feedback LLC/Dean Rogers

TV Pick of the Week: The Gallows Pole - review by Yvette Huddleston

Michael Socha playing David Hartley in the TV adaptation of The Gallows Pole

The Gallows Pole shows Cragg Vale on its knees but it is now a des res village

The Gallows Pole: Sophie McShera as Grace Hartley
BBC/Element Pictures (GP) Limited/Objective Feedback LLC,Dean Rogers

The Gallows Pole: Sophie McShera on starring in the BBC drama

Rebecca Land, volunteer trustee at the museum adds the finishing touches before it opens to the opening to the public at the end of May in the room which doubled as the Inn for filming

How closed Heptonstall Museum has been reborn as a BBC filming location

Pictured: David Hartley (MICHAEL SOCHA) and the Stagmen in The Gallows Pole. Picture: BBC/Element Pictures (GP) Limited/Objective Feedback LLC/Dean Rogers.

Shane Meadows on portraying an 'entire Yorkshire community risking their lives'

Michael Socha as David Hartley in The Gallows Pole. Picture: BBC.

First pictures of The Gallows Pole drama by Shane Meadows revealed

Steve Hartley, who has written about the Cragg Vale Coiners, of which his relative David Hartley was the leader.

The Yorkshire gang behind one of the biggest frauds in British history

The Friends of Heptonstall Museum will re-open the 18th-century schoolroom and run it themselves

Heptonstall ready to share fascinating history as volunteers re-open museum

Wadsworth Bank Farm is in an idyllic spot

Idyllic farmhouse with three acres for sale near Hebden Bridge

Bafta-winning filmmaker Shane Meadows is making The Gallows Pole for the BBC. Picture: PA

Shane Meadows making BBC drama on Yorkshire’s infamous Cragg Vale Coiners

Old Cock Inn, Halifax

16th Century Halifax pub The Old Cock changes hands

Outbreaks of mass hysteria like the one in 1930s Halifax have been witnessed acorss the world.

How the curious case of the Halifax Slasher caused a mass outbreak of hysteria

MINT CONDITION: Benjamin Myers, author of The Gallows Pole.

Review: The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers

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