
30: Plunkett and Maclaine - Stand and Deliver! Your Money Or Your Diving Suit.
02/14/20 • 22 min
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Stand And Deliver! Your Money Or Your Diving Suit.
A young gentleman who was set for a life in the clergy, stumbles into a life of
Crime after losing the love of his life to a mystery illness. After colluding with an equally broke apothecary, the pair decided they could become the best highwaymen that London had ever seen and look incredibly stylish doing so.
This time on Macabre London, we’re uncovering the story of The gentleman highwaymen, James MacLaine and his accomplice, William Plunkett.
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Stand And Deliver! Your Money Or Your Diving Suit.
A young gentleman who was set for a life in the clergy, stumbles into a life of
Crime after losing the love of his life to a mystery illness. After colluding with an equally broke apothecary, the pair decided they could become the best highwaymen that London had ever seen and look incredibly stylish doing so.
This time on Macabre London, we’re uncovering the story of The gentleman highwaymen, James MacLaine and his accomplice, William Plunkett.
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If you like this episode, please like, share and subscribe. It helps people to find the podcast which helps the Macabre Family grow! Please leave us a review, this also helps us to be discovered on iTunes and helps you guys in turn as more listeners helps the podcast grow into something bigger and better!!
All stories in this episode were written and researched by Nikki Druce and are not to be reproduced in any aspect without consent.
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Theme music by Mattia Culpelli
#highwayman #highwaymen #London #londonhistory #macabrelondon #truecrime #truecrimedocumentary #history #ukhistory #britishhistory #englishhistory #uktruecrime #macabre #creepy #historyforyoutube
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Music—————————-Theme music by Mattia CulpelliSources-------------------------London Evening Standard - Tuesday 28 June 1881London Evening Standard - Wednesday 29 June 1881Survivor's Tales of Famous Crimes (London: cassell and Company, 1916), Pages 118-134http://www.victoriana.com/Fashion/victorianclothing/howtodressvictorianman.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merstham_tunnelshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcombe_tunnelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallington,_LondonBolton Evening News - Friday 01 July 1881Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette - S... Get bonus content on Patreon
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