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1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, died. 1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened. 1819— Birth of Queen Victoria. ..

... 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, died. 1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened. 1819— Birth of Queen Victoria. 1844 The first Morse Code message was successfully sent, in America. 1895 Henry Irving became the first person to be knighted for services to the ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1988
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 547 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Newsagent fined

... Leasowe Road. Wallasey, pleaded guilty. He had a previous similar conviction, and was fined £l5O with £5O costs. Jail talks DARTMOOR prison staff have held an emergency meeting on security breaches, after two prisoners escaped within 24 hours. ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1984
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

to shut

... recently taken over by British Aerospace, says the contract will be carried out at its Nottingham factory. Governor slammed DARTMOOR prison officers have passed a vote of no confidence in governor John May but he claims he has the support of most of his staff ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1987
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 92 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Female officers for Dartmoor

... Female officers for Dartmoor DARTMOOR Prison is to get its first female officers. Two women are due to start work in March helping to guard thejail's 620 male inmates who include murderers, and rapists. They are being taken on to reinforce the 200 male ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1988
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 96 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

QUIZ TIME

... red vertical stripes? What is the name of the town situated at the south end of Loch Ness? 4 What town is the nehest to Dartmoor Prison? Who was the cartoonist who made famous Colonel Blimp? Charles the Second was married to Catherine of Breganza: Where ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1981
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 103 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Den's barred!

... Den's barred! STARS of the hit soap East Enders were behind bars today filming inside Dartmoor Prison. A BBC crew moved into the jail's empty B wing for a fortnight to film scenes to be shown later this year. Details of the plot are secret - - but ...

Published: Tuesday 05 July 1988
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

BN AT

... the fund-raisers have been given some time to find the monevy. rFrisoners FACILITIES available to prisoners’ wives at Dartmoor Prison was the subject of discussion at a meeting of Wheatley Lane Methodist Church Women's Fellowsth on Tuesday. he ladies were ...

Published: Friday 07 March 1986
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Quiz time

... come? 4 What was the Baptis- mal name of Cord Beaverbrook? 5 What did Sir James Watt patent? 6 Which town is nearest to Dartmoor Prison? 7 Whose eldest son is the Earl of Ulster? 8 How many time zones are there in the U.S.A.? 9 With which sport do you associate ...

Published: Tuesday 28 December 1982
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

C4l

... C4l 1413 Death of King Henry IV. 1806 The foundation stone of Dartmoor Prison was laid, built to house French prisoners of war. 1828— Writer Henrik Ibsen was born. 1956 Tunisia became a sovereign state independent of France after 75 years. 1969 John Lennon ...

Published: Monday 20 March 1989
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 229 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Your letters:

... never particularly fond of gardens and, as for • Liverpool, well I always thought that one would be inclined to go to Dartmoor Prison before they went to Liverpool of their own free choice. Needless to say that this letter is a total indictment of my ...

Published: Monday 18 June 1984
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Wedding delay for prisoner

... have to fix another date with the girl of his dreams - or wed her behind bars. Hawxwell faces another two months inside Dartmoor Prison — for a prison assault he claims he did not commit. He has taken his case to the High Court in a bid to win his freedom ...

Published: Wednesday 16 March 1988
Newspaper: Morecambe Visitor
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Lightning hits three

... who was walking on Popit Sands, Cardigan, a mon who sheltering under a tree a stone at llamas Omens, West London, and a Dartmoor Prison officer who was on duty at the prison farm Elsewhere, the heatwave turned a cool-off swim tragedy, when a 17-years-old ...

Published: Tuesday 12 July 1983
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 378 | Page: 1 | Tags: none