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Taking Memory Lane to court

Nostalgia features and Memory Lane slots have been a staple of the local paper for decades.

But now they can take a darker and more sinister twist. Website Ancestry.co.uk has published details of more than a million court trials from the 18th and 19th centuries when over 200 different crimes were punishable by death.

Over 10,000 executions are featured along with crimes such as poaching rabbits and the transportation of criminals to the colonies.

Have a look around and see what happened on your patch from days long gone by.