RELIC OF TYBURN.
London, September IffWorkman laying a n-Av water main at Marble Arch, d .-<• ivered a vaulted chamber 27 fi«t below the surface. Twenty-four ' our later the Water Board ordered lla- chamber to be tilled in and thi- wa- lone. It is now believed that the chamber was the dungeon in which those awaiting execution a! Tyburn were confined. The foreman of the works slates that the roof is arched, an 1 ihere is a stone seat round three sides of the wall. ”1 though! the structure important and left it intact, ponding instructions. When those were received, we knocked ott the roof and laid the pipes through • lie vault.”
What is probably a historic rein wr.s thus destroyed. Skulls and oilier reniuins of Tyburn victims v< iv found in the vicinity recently.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2634, 18 September 1923, Page 2
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134RELIC OF TYBURN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2634, 18 September 1923, Page 2
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