“WHERE GOOD & EVIL COLLIDE & FANTASY MEETS REALITY ” WITCHCRAFT, PAGANISM, WICCAN, SATANISM, THE OCCULT, SECRET SOCIETIES AND BEYOND…. IT’S ALL HERE AT THE UK’S ONLY “DARK TOURISM VISITOR ATTRACTION”… THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, UK.

Original painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of Gerald Gardner here on display in and amongst our Witchcraft Collection .

 

ABOVE AND BELOW :

One of the Baphomet figurines on display  in and amongst an array of Satanic Occult memorabilia items at the jail .

 

BAPHOMET OUIJA BOARD ON DISPLAY IN AND AMONGST THE wITCHCRAFT & OCCULT COLLECTION HERE AT THE JAIL .

 

 

Original painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of Alex Sanders and his High Priestess wife Maxine, here on display in and amongst our Witchcraft Collection .

 

 

ABOVE AND BELOW : SATANIC DECORATED RAMS HEAD SKULL ON DISPLAY ALONG WITH A GREAT MANY  OTHER INTRIGUING ITEMS  WITHIN THE WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULT EXHIBITION  AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL , FOREST OF DEAN , GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UK .

 

  Below : One of the Baphomet figurines on display  in and amongst an array of Satanic Occult memorabilia items at the jail .

Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman of Aleister Crowley on display here in and amongst out Witchcraft & Occult Collection .

 

WHERE GOOD AND EVIL COLLIDE 

HELL IN A CELL “ASYLUM”

A UNIQUE LIFE SIZE  DIORAMA BY THE ARTIST KNOWN AS “THE GUV ” NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE GATEHOUSE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL.THIS DEPICTING THE PSYCHOPATHIC AND CRIMINALLY INSANE INMATE  HOUSED WITHIN HIS OWN MENTAL ASYLUM CRAZED CELL AND SURROUNDED BY  HIS APPARITION OF A MAD MEDIEVAL AND SATANIC MONK. ALSO DISPLAYED WITH  HIS PERSONAL WITCHCRAFT , SATANIC AND OCCULT INSPIRED BELONGINGS.  THE SADISTIC, EVIL LOOKING PRISON GUARDS WHO TORMENT HIM STAND MENACINGLY  BESIDE HIM .

WE ALSO FEATURE IN AND AROUND THE JAIL THE SATANIC KU KLUX KLAN , NAZI SS EXHIBITION , SERIAL KILLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD , AND SO MUCH MORE …

VERY DIVERSE AND THOUGHT PROVOKING TO SAY THE LEAST .

IF EASILY OFFENDED, DISTURBED OR OF A SENSITIVE NATURE …. LITTLEDEAN JAIL IS CERTAINLY NOT FOR YOU, SO PLEASE STAY AWAY ….

THIS VISITOR ATTRACTION IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT A FAMILY FRIENDLY ATTRACTION AND MOST CERTAINLY NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN !!!!

THIS IS NOT A PLOY TO DRAG IN MORE VISITORS…. IT IS A FACT …. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ………………………………

REAR ELEVATION OF THE LITTLEDEAN JAIL GATEHOUSE BUILDING WHICH IS NOW HOME TO THE WITCHCRAFT, SATANISM. OCCULT AND PARANORMAL EXHIBITION . OTHER EXHIBITIONS ON THESE SAID FRONTS ALSO AVAILABLE TO SEE IN THE MAIN JAIL AREAS .

 

ONE OF THE HANDPAINTED BESPOKE PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY WITHIN THE INMATE’S ASYLUM CELL HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL.

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BAPHOMET POSTER ON DISPLAY WITHIN THE INMATE’S CELL

Baphomet figurine and lifesize Baphomet .

ABOVE AND BELOW ….ARE VARIOUS  VIEWS LOOKING THROUGH THE CELL BARS AND FROM WITHIN THE CELL  OF “THE ASYLUM” …

THE INMATE’S OUIJA  BOARD , USED TO CONTACT THE DEAD , ALONG WITH OTHER VARIOUS PERSONAL BELONGINGS .

THE MAD , SAD AND BAD MIND OF THE INMATE …. VARIOUS HANDMADE MODELS ,TAXIDERMY AND  BELONGINGS WITHIN HIS CELL

INSIDE VIEW OF THE  INMATE’S CELL SURROUNDED BY MYSTICAL MONK , EVIL LOOKING PRISON GUARDS , HIS PERSONAL POSSESSIONS WHICH INCLUDE HIS ARTWORK , MODELS, VARIOUS WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULT ITEMS ..

BESPOKE HAND PAINTED BAPHOMET SYMBOL MIRROR ON DISPLAY WITHIN THE INMATE’S  ASYLUM CELL

BESPOKE HANDPAINTED WITCHCRAFT PENTAGRAM SYMBOLIC MIRROR ON DISPLAY WITHIN THE INMATE’S  ASYLUM CELL

BESPOKE BAPHOMET SYMBOL HANDPAINTED  METAL SIGN ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL

BESPOKE  HANDPAINTED WITCHCRAFT PENTAGRAM SYMBOL METAL SIGN ( REVERSE OF THE ABOVE ) ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL

VARIOUS INSIDE VIEWS OF SOME OF THE INMATE’S PERSONAL BELONGINGS RELATING TO HIS FASCINATION WITH WITCHCRAFT AND  THE OCCULT , INCLUDING DEATH MASKS AND OTHER THOUGHT PROVOKING ITEMS ETC

VARIOUS WITCHCRAFT AND THE OCCULT  JEWELLERY AND INSIGNIA  WORN BY THE EVIL LOOKING PRISON GUARD ON DUTY  IN THE INMATE’S  ASYLUM CELL

ABOVE AND BELOW ….. THE INMATE’S CRAZED MINDSET WITH HIS GHOSTLY APPARITION OF  HIS MENTOR AND PROTECTOR ….”THE MAD MEDIEVAL AND SATANIC MONK”

BELOW ARE VARIOUS OTHER THOUGHT PROVOKING  IMAGES PROVIDING AN INSIGHT INTO THE MIND OF THE PSYCHOPATHIC INMATE , HIS FASCINATION  WITH WITCHCRAFT , THE OCCULT, THE INSIDE VIEWS OF HIS ASYLUM , ALONG WITH THE EVIL LOOKING GUARDS WHO CARE FOR HIM ….

ABOVE AND BELOW ARE SOME OF THE INMATE’S PERSONAL ARTWORK ON DISPLAY WITHIN HIS CELL

 

ABOVE AND BELOW  ARE SOME OF THE INMATE’S VARIOUS EVIL DEATH MASKS ON THE WALLS WITHIN HIS ASYLUM CELL

ABOVE : VARIOUS  ELECTRICAL SHOCK THERAPY  EQUIPMENT ALONG WITH CRICKET BALL KOSH , BLACK GLOVE USED BY THE PRISON GUARDS ON THE INMATE . DISPLAYED HERE ALONG WITH  THE INMATE’S  OTHER PERSONAL ITEMS

HERE BELOW IS A BRIEF LOOK AT SOME OTHER WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULT RELATED EXHIBIT ITEMS ON DISPLAY INSIDE LITTLEDEAN JAIL’S MAIN EXHIBITION AREAS ….

 

 

ABOVE AND BELOW : WITCHES DUCKING STOOL ALSO KNOWN AS A CUCKING STOOL

ORIGINAL VILLAGE STOCKS

 

ABOVE AND BELOW: LOST SOULS … A SPOOKY AND HAUNTING LOOKING MACABRE TABLE LAMP MADE FROM  9 ANIMAL SKULLS

ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING BY GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST PAUL BRIDGMAN ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL

 

BELOW – ORIGINAL HAUNTING, GHOST- LIKE PAINTING OF ELLEN HAYWARD ( OLD ELLEN ) OVERLOOKING HER GRAVE AT ST JOHNS CHURCH , CINDERFORD WITH A SILHOUETTE IMAGE OF THE ENTRANCE TO LITTLEDEAN JAIL IN THE BACKGROUND , WHERE SHE WAS TRIED FOR WITCHCRAFT IN 1906 ON DISPLAY AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL , IN AND AMONGST A SMALL EXHIBITION ON THE WITCH OF THE FOREST ….FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CLICK HERE

DARK TOURISM HERE IN THE UK ORIGINAL KU KLUX KLAN EXPLOITATION AND SEXPLOITATION MOVIE POSTERS … BANNED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD , BUT HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL, UK

HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL AND THROUGH OUR BUSINESS FACEBOOK WE TRY AND PROVIDE A BALANCED AND EDUCATIONAL INTERACTIVE INSIGHT INTO WHAT MANY DEEM TO BE TABOO SUBJECT MATTERS .

PLEASE DO BE AWARE THAT  THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , IT’S OWNER , OR ANY OF IT’S STAFF HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL HAVE NO AFFILIATION , CONNECTION OR INVOLVEMENT WITH ANY EXTREMIST , POLITICALLY MOTIVATED OR OTHERWISE MOVEMENTS WHATSOEVER …… WE SIMPLY EXHIBIT AND TOUCH UPON A GREAT MANY POLITICALLY INCORRECT AND TABOO SUBJECT MATTERS THAT NO OTHER VISITOR ATTRACTIONS DARE COVER IN THE WAY WE CHOOSE TO DO HERE. …. “IT’S ALL HISTORY FOR GOODNESS SAKE”….EVEN IF ON OCCASIONS, SENSITIVE , THOUGHT PROVOKING SUBJECT MATTERS THAT INCITE STRONG DEBATE .

WIDELY REGARDED TO BE BLACK RACISM MOVIES MANY OF THESE NOW BANNED KU KLUX KLAN MOVIE POSTERS WERE DEEMED TO BE A GLORIFICATION TOOL AND USED FOR RECRUITMENT OF NEW MEMBERS INTO THIS WHITE EXTREMIST HOODED ROBE MOVEMENT

 

HERE BELOW IS A BRIEF PICTORIAL INSIGHT INTO SOME OF THE KKK MEMORBILIA ITEMS HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Ever since the release of legendary director D.W. Griffith’s controversial epic The Birth of the Nation (1915), based on Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s (play and) novel titled The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and featuring silent star Lillian Gish and future Oscar winner Donald Crisp (among others), classic Hollywood seems to have avoided taking on the KKK to expose its wicked acts or its members’ ignorant beliefs in any substantive way. Though there are several dramas which incorporate it – or at least Klan-like organizations – peripherally, classic films that feature any real detail about its beginnings, longevity, charters, or even insight into its leaders and/or their motivations etc. are surprisingly absent. Maybe the studios felt that real evil and its practitioners were being adequately portrayed in their gangster and war pictures, or perhaps there were fears that a movie about the Klan wouldn’t make good at the box office (particularly in the South)?

The Warner Bros.’s Storm Warning (1951) wasn’t very specific about the KKK’s prejudices, though much of the film’s dialogue (from prosecutor Ronald Reagan and the miscast Ginger Rogers character) does deliver the requisite indictment of the organization and its members: too scared to act without the courage of numbers or show their faces (hence the hoods). But the twist is that the Grand Dragon’s real motivation for leading the clandestine group is financial – there’s real money for him in the dues and the paraphernalia he sells to its members – such that he comes off as a corrupt union boss, or worse a capitalist;-) In the end, the leader’s true self centered (versus “all for one”) nature is revealed and the enraged and disillusioned group wises up and runs for cover from the law. Warner’s Black Legion (1937), starring Humphrey Bogart and featuring a plot plausible enough to earn Robert Lord his second Best Writing-Original Story AA nom, did a better job of exploring the roots of hatred and xenophobia that can seduce one to join such an organization. Since I wrote about MGM’s Stars in My Crown (1950) in my earlier Films about Faith essay, I’ll not include any more text about it here other than to mention that actor Ed Begley (Sr.) seemed to have excelled in portraying angry racist characters. The WB’s (and producer-director Mervyn LeRoy’s) overlong drama The FBI Story (1959), a veritable paean to the organization’s squeaky clean agents and the stout leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, warrants barely a mention except that one of its storylines includes the infiltration of the KKK by the film’s principal character, played by James Stewart.

Which brings me to The Mating Call (1928), produced by Howard Hughes and including titles written by future Oscar winner Herman J. Mankiewicz. The Klan-like organization in this one is named “The Order” and its purpose is to enforce a morality code within its community: black hooded individuals tie a wife beater to a cross and whip him for abusing his spouse. But the primary sin herein is adultery. Upon returning home a hero after serving his country during World War I, Leslie Hatton (Thomas Meighan) finds that his wartime marriage to Rose (Evelyn Brent, playing a sexually aggressive man-eater) was annulled by her parents. But even though he’s (somehow) not interested in having an affair with his former bride, Hatton’s accused of fooling around with Rose by her current husband Lon, a hypocrite that’s having extramarital relations of his own (with a judge’s daughter, no less). Lon uses The Order to threaten the war hero to leave his wife alone. Hatton’s solution to avoid future visits and further scrutiny from these local self-appointed moral authorities includes his going to Ellis Island and marrying a French girl (Renee Adoree, The Big Parade (1925)) whose parents want to immigrate to the United States. However, a subsequent scandal affecting the aforementioned characters (and others) leads The Order to become involved in Hatton’s life again.

Some other dramas that feature the KKK or like-minded groups are: Legion of Terror (1936), The Burning Cross (1947), Another Part of the Forest (1948), The Klansman (1974), Places in the Heart (1984), which earned writer (director) Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)) his third Oscar, and Mississippi Burning (1988); plus, it’s hard to forget the hilarious scene in Mel Brooks’ western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974) in which Cleavon Little (accompanied by Gene Wilder) dons a white rob and hood

FREAKS OF NATURE, CURIOSITIES, ODDITIES,BIZARRE, THE MACABRE, WITCHCRAFT & THE OCCULT, SATANISM & SO MUCH MORE. IT’S ALL HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, UK

WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO REVIVE THE OLD VICTORIAN STYLE SIDESHOW FEATURING BOTH THE HUMAN FREAKS AND ANIMAL FREAKS OF NATURE?  THIS IS NOW ONE OF OUR FUTURE PLANS TO HOST HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL . YES, POSSIBLY POLITICALLY INCORRECT , HOWEVER WHAT A SPECTACLE IT WOULD BE HERE IN THE UK .

HENCE WE ARE NOW ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR HUMAN FREAKS AND ANY OTHER FREAKS OF NATURE TO JOIN US AND BECOME PART OF THIS EVENT TO INTERACT WITH THE PUBLIC .

“Google” our  two headed, three eyed puppy dog that was previously on display at the Jamaica Inn, Cornwall , before being acquired for display here at Littledean Jail 

Above and below : Various Freaks Of Nature here on display at The Crime Through Time Collection , Littledean jail, UK

MOO-MOO ……..OUR FREAK BORN TWO HEADED CALF HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAILBELOW: ANDY JONES OF THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL WITH A PRESERVED TWO HEADED SNAKE ( NOT LIVE ) WHICH IS ON DISPLAY WITH THE OTHER VARIOUS FREAKS OF NATURE .

 

 ABOVE IS AN IMAGE OF A ” FUR BEARING TROUT”  …..  A THEN TYPICAL VICTORIAN FREAK-SHOW ATTRACTION ….     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9jnLzpEaXE

HERE’S A PICTORIAL INSIGHT INTO OUR OWN FREAKS OF NATURE EXHIBITION HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL , WHICH IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A TOURING EXHIBITION DURING OUR CLOSED SEASON AT THE JAIL ( 1ST NOVEMBER UNTIL 31ST MARCH) FOR DETAILS PLEASE EMAIL JULES@CONCERTPHOTOGRAPHY.CO.UK

ALSO BELOW ARE SOME INTRIGUING INTERACTIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF A TWO HEADED KITTEN (BORN IN THE USA) AND A TWO HEADED CALF ( BORN IN GEORGIA) … BOTH BORN ALIVE AND ARE SIMILAR TO THE ONES WE HAVE HERE ON DISPLAY (OUR’S ARE OBVIOUSLY SADLY  NO LONGER LIVING  )

LADY GAGA OUR FREAK BORN TWO FACED KITTEN  MEETS GOOGLE OUR FREAK BORN TWO FACED THREE EYED PUPPY

ABOVE AND BELOW : ORIGINAL CANVAS PAINTINGS BY GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTIST PAUL BIRDGMAN ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

LADY GAGA MEETS GOOGLE

SHRUNKEN HEADS

TWO-HEADED RAT

GOOGLE THE THREE EYED TWO-FACED PUPPY

SHRUNKEN HEAD

SHRUNKEN HEAD

REAR SHOT OF SIX LEGGED PIGLET

LADY GAGA OUR TWO FACED KITTEN

LADY GAGA OUR TWO FACED KITTEN

“Pandora” the six legged, two bodied kitten on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

“Kitty” the seven legged , two bodied kitten on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

BONKING MONKEYS

“Face ” the two faced, one headed piglet born circa 1860 on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

GRIZZLY THE BEAR

SWAMPY THE 10 FOOT CROCODLIE

“Face ” the two faced, one headed piglet born circa 1860 on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

“Face ” the two faced, one headed piglet born circa 1860 on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

“Kitty” the seven legged , two bodied kitten on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

GOOGLE THE THREE EYED TWO-FACED PUPPY

TWO HEADED TERRAPIN

“Kitty” the seven legged , two bodied kitten on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

“Pandora” the six legged, two bodied kitten on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

WINNIE AND BOO BOO THE INDIAN BEARS ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

“Noddy ” the two headed pheasant on display as “freaks Of Nature Collection”

GOOGLE THE THREE EYED TWO-FACED PUPPY

ABOVE AND BELOW ARE IMAGES OF “BAA BAA” GLOUCESTERSHIRE  FREAK BORN  EIGHT LEGGED, FOUR EARED, TWO BODIES AND ONE HEADED LAMB HERE ON DISPLAY IN AMONGST OUR FREAKS OF NATURE COLLECTIONS .

 LADY GAGA ….. OUR FREAK BORN TWO FACED , THREE EYED KITTEN HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

ABOVE : TWO HEADED RAT ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

ABOVE: ORIGINAL TIBETAN HUMAN  SKULLS & RAMS HEAD  ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

BELOW: ORIGINAL HUMAN SKULL CHALICES USED FOR SACRIFICIAL, WITCHCRAFT AND OCCULT CEREMONIAL GATHERINGS

BELOW : ORIGINAL MONKEY SKULL NECKLACE USED FOR VOODOO AND BLACK MAGIC .

BAPHOMET FIGURE ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

LADY EMILIA – WITCH OF THE FOREST ON DISPLAY AT THE JAIL

ALEX SANDERS “KING OF THE WITCHES ” ON DISPLAY IN AND AMONGST THE ” WITCHCRAFT AND THE OCCULT COLLECTION ” AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL , UK

One of the collage features on display within Littledean Jail’s “Witchcraft, Paganism, Wiccan, Satanism, The Occult, The Illuminati and Secret Societies Collection ” .

Alex Sanders ( 6 June 1926-30 April 1988).  Born Orrell Alexander Carter, who went under the craft name Verbius, was an English occultist and High Priest in the Pagan religion of Wicca, responsible for founding the tradition of Alexandrian Wicca during the 1960s. Raised in a working-class family, he was introduced to esoteric ideas by his mother and grandmother from a young age, and as a young man began working as a medium in the local Spiritualist Churches before going on to study and practice ceremonial magic. In 1963, he was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca before founding his own coven, through which he merged many aspects of ceremonial magic into Wicca. He claimed to have been initiated by his Grandmother as a child, though evidence for this is lacking. Throughout the 1960s, he would court publicity in the press, appearing in a number of documentaries, marrying the far younger Maxine Sanders, and being declared to be the “King of the Witches” by his followers, something that led to other prominent Gardnerian Witches, such as Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, attacking him in the press. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he went on to work with a ceremonial magical group known as the Ordine Della Luna, prior to his death. The tradition he founded with Maxine Sanders became known as Alexandrian Wicca.

Below : An intriguing video footage on the seemingly bizarre life of Alex Sanders

Below : One of the collage features on display within Littledean Jail’s “Witchcraft, Paganism, Wiccan, Satanism, The Occult, The Illuminati and Secret Societies Collection ” .

Below : Alex Sanders initiation into the sacred Mysteries

Below : One of the collage features on display within Littledean Jail’s “Witchcraft, Paganism, Wiccan, Satanism, The Occult, The Illuminati and Secret Societies Collection ” .

Below: Baphomet Ouija board on display at Littledean Jail

Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman depicting Alex Sanders and his High Priestess wife Maxine on display at the jail

Below : Collage of newspaper clippings featuring Alex Sanders on display at Littledean Jail

Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman depicting Gerald Gardner, and High Priestess’s Monique Wilson and Patricia Crowther  on display at the jail

 

LP Album cover of Alex Sanders  ” A Witch Is Born ” on display at the Jail

Original painting by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman depicting Aleister Crowley ,   on display at the jail

WHERE FANTASY MEETS REALITY HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL. BELOW IS A BRIEF LOOK AT OUR EXHIBITION ON WITCHFINDER GENERAL- MATTHEW HOPKINS, WHICH EMBRACES BOTH THE ORIGINAL HISTORY ON THIS BRUTAL AND SADISTIC WITCH HUNTER BETWEEN 1644 – 1646, LATER TO BE THE SUBJECT OF THE 1968 BRITISH CULT HORROR FILM … WITCHFINDER GENERAL STARRING VINCENT PRICE

Matthew Hopkins (c. 1620 – 12 August 1647) was an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He claimed to hold the office of Witchfinder General, although that title was never bestowed by Parliament. His witch-hunts mainly took place in East Anglia.

Hopkins’ witch-finding career began in March 1644 and lasted until his retirement in 1647. He and his associates were responsible for more people being hanged for witchcraft than in the previous 100 years, and were solely responsible for the increase in witch trials during those years. He is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 300 women between the years 1644 and 1646. It has been estimated that all of the English witch trials between the early 15th and late 18th centuries resulted in fewer than 500 executions for witchcraft. Therefore, presuming the number executed as a result of “investigations” by Hopkins and his colleague John Stearne is at the lower end of the various estimates, their efforts accounted for about 60 per cent of the total; in the 14 months of their crusade Hopkins and Stearne sent to the gallows more people than all the other witch-hunters in England of the previous 160 years

Above and Below : Portrayal of Matthew Hopkins – Witchfinder General , loosely based on Vincent Price’s adaptation of him in the 1968 film “Witchfinder General ” directed by Michael Reeves . This being part of a historically informative insight into the 17th Century well documented infamous Witch Hunts .

 

A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession – a policy which is exploited to the full.Above : One of the many informative exhibition pieces on display in and amongst out “WHERE FANTASY MEETS REALITY ” feature on the true story of the infamous Witch hunter  Matthew Hopkins , known as The Witchfinder General. Subsequently played by Vincent Price in the 1968 film “The Witchfinder General ” …. which was also retitled “The Conqueror Worm ” for release in the USA.

Above : An image of an original 1968 film poster for Witchfinder General  on display at The Crime Through Time Collection, in and amongst The Witchcraft, Satanism, The Occult , The illuminati, The Paranormal and Beyond Exhibition .

Original film poster entitled ” The Conqueror Worm ” for the release of the original British made  “Witchfinder General” film  in the USA

 

Below: A brief video clip from the 1968 film – Witchfinder General…. based on a true story in the fact that this was the first execution of an alleged witch Elizabeth Clarke in 1645 ….One of a great many women who were subsequently sadistically executed on the orders of Matthew Hopkins , for  allegedly being witches .

An original 1968 magazine advert for the film .

 

Below: An original oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman depicting Vincent Price as The Witchfinder General – Matthew Hopkins  in the 1968 British Horror cult film .

 

Below:  TV documentary about the real Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins

Below Original oil painting by Paul Bridgman depicting what was claimed to be an early woodcutting image of the original Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins in the presence of two seated witches and their imps

  

An original 1968 magazine advert for the film .

 

Above : Another short clip from the 1968 film

Above and below: Original oil paintings by Paul Bridgman depicting various scenes from the film, on display at the jail.

AMERICAN SERIAL KILLER AND RAPIST JOHN WAYNE GACY ALSO KNOWN AS KILLER CLOWN (17/03/1942-10/05/1994 ). HE MURDERED AT LEAST 33 TEENAGE BOYS AND YOUNG MEN

TRUE CRIME , MURDERABILIA, MAIMERABILIA, DISMALABILIA, WITCHCRAFT, SATANISM AND THE OCCULT …. IT’S ALL HERE AND MUCH MORE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN , GLOUCESTERSHIRE , UK .

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994), also known as the Killer Clown, was an American serial killer and rapist. He sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois.

ABOVE: Original painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of John Wayne Gacy on display at Littledean Jail .

All of Gacy’s known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park, Illinois home. His victims would typically be lured to this address by force or deception, and all but one victim were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a tourniquet (his first victim was stabbed to death). Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Three further victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River.

Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death for 12 of these killings on March 13, 1980. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.

Above: Police mugshots of John Wayne Gacy .

Gacy became known as the “Killer Clown” due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades, and children’s parties where he would dress as “Pogo the Clown”, a character he devised himself.

BELOW : Various exhibit items to include one of Gacy’s “Pogo The Clown ” suits , handwritten and signed correspondence , a hand painting and various other memorabilia, all of which is on display here at The Crime Through Time Collection , Littledean Jail , Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire, UK .

ABOVE AND BELOW : One of  John Wayne Gacy’s  original worn clown suits. There are two other known Gacy clown suits on display  at The National Museum of Crime , Washington DC , USA .

BELOW: picture of 2 other Gacy clown suits, on display at The National Museum of Crime, Washington DC ….. Previously owned ( not sure if he still owns them )  by Jonathan Davis, lead singer of American Heavy Metal Band “Korn .”

ABOVE: John Wayne Gacy pictured in jail, so say,  shortly before his execution by lethal injection

 

 

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ALSO KNOWN AS THE DEATH PENALTY . A CHILLING REMINDER OF THE WORK OF BRITAIN’S HANGMEN AND EXECUTIONERS …. HERE ON DISPLAY AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION , LITTLEDEAN JAIL , UK

Talk about objects that evoke strong feelings and debate ….  you need look no further than a simple rope which just happens to be the Hangman’s Noose .

Here at The Crime Through Time Collection, Littledean Jail we house and display several original Hangman’s Nooses including the one used by James Berry on ” The Man They Couldn’t Hang ”  John “Babbacombe” Lee.  

We also house and have on display  several official government regulation nooses made by John Edgington , Old Kent Road, London. Some of which have the chamois leather noose and the the gutta percha on the noose ends. The gutta percha was later omitted from the regulation noose ends in 1955.

These noose’s would have possibly  been used for both test drops and executions  by several of Britain’s 20th Century Hangmen and Executioners, and also for executions carried out abroad . These ropes would undoubtedly have been used by the likes of Stephen Wade, Henry Kirk, Robert Lewis Stewart, John Ellis, Albert Pierrepoint and the last hangman in England Harry Allen .

Above : Original oil painting of  3 generations of the Pierrepoint family , who were all Britain’s chief executioners  … Painted by local Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman , on display at Littledean Jail.

Sadly official records no longer appear to exist in regards to  where and on whom these official government regulation J Edgington & Co noose’s were used . All we know is that Edgingtons were awarded the Government contract to supply all the execution noose’s from 1888 up until the abolition of the death penalty in 1964.

The only other official documentation or records  that exists in regards to the storage and transportation of  numbered J Edgington nooses is that which is held at HMP Wandsworth , London.

We also feature on display an array of handwritten and signed correspondence from a number of hangmen.

All in all a hopefully  unique,  historical and educational insight into the life and times of Capital Punishment within the UK .

ABOVE AND BELOW: VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE HANGMAN NOOSE’S WHICH WERE MADE BY J EDGINGTON & CO , OLD KENT ROAD , LONDON. THESE WERE MANUFACTURED BY THEM FROM 1888 UNTIL THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN 1965 .

Official inscription of Government  Hangman nNoose makers  J. Edgington  on brass eyelets .

close-up image of vulcanised rubber noose washer and ” gutta percha ” covering

 

Close up image of Chamois Leather covered noose