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Not What I expected, but a Lovely site.
http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/tree/tree.html
An updated link.
location of Tyburn : [ Tiburne ]. It was situated at very popular Sunday morning hot spot, located for those that want to be entertained by voluminous Discussions, better known as Speakers corner. Junction of Edgware Road ,Oxford Street and Bayswater Road. The names were changed later.
more at http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/location.html
map
http://www.tyburnconvent.org.uk/home/map.html
Tiburn Road and Maryland Road and Oxford Street.
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&artist=384&other=309&x=11&y=11
later area map http://www.motco.com/map/81001/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&artist=383&other=229&x=11&y=11
Tyburn Tree and Public Execution in Early Modern England
http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~cmitchell/
On the figure of Tyburn Tree this site hangs a collection of links to 17-18c resources http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~cmitchell/docs.htm on a topic that runs its course down to the current century.
The Idle ‘Prentice Executed at Tyburn. (Industry and Idleness, XI). William Hogarth (1697-1764).
Glyn’s link shows Tyburn gallows’location most clearly
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&artist=384&other=307&x=11&y=11
“The link above shows the location of Tyburn gallows, which was the main execution site in London and was at the end of Oxford Street roughly where Marble Arch is now.
“If you look at the little drawing you will see that the Gallows was triangular, enabling up to thirty felons to be hanged simultaneously”
Glyn on Thu 30 Oct 2003, 5:54 pm http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/487.php#c8272
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