the Blakeney Gang The struggle against enclosure in the Forest of Dean

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Walter Virgo and the Blakeney Gang The struggle against enclosure in the Forest of Dean in the latter part of the nineteenth century By Ian Wright
Pamphlet Details
Available in Bristol, online and by mail order from ak press in Edinburgh.
Range: Bristol Radical Pamphleteer 
Number: 25 
By: Ian Wright 
Edition: 2nd Edition (1st Edition 2013) 
ISBN: 978-1-911522-26-3 
Number of pages: 74

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Section: Bristol Radical Pamphleteer 
Subjects: Commons, Customary Rights & Enclosures, Social Crime 
Tags: animal maiming, Blakeney, Forest of Dean, machine breaking, poaching, Walter Virgo
Posted: 21/04/2013 Modified: 12/02/2017
http://www.brh.org.uk/site/pamphleteer/walter-virgo-and-the-blakeney-gang/

These are some of the headlines which started appearing in the Gloucester Citizen and Western Daily Press in the 1890s. This pamphlet will try and get behind the headlines and reveal what was really going on in the Blakeney area of the Forest of Dean at the time.

THE BLAKENEY OUTRAGES

“WORSE THAN IRELAND” – THE VICAR ASKS FOR EXCEPTIONAL LAW

A REIGN OF TERROR – SPEECH BY MINERS AGENT

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE IN BLAKENEY – THE RECENT OUTRAGES

MORE LAWLESSNESS AT BLAKENEY – RESIDENTS ARMED

ALLEGED POACHING AFFRAY IN DEAN FOREST

A POLICE SERGEANT MURDERED AND A CONSTABLE INJURED

POACHING IN DEAN FOREST – A POLICEMAN STONED

POACHING AT NEWNHAM – ARREST OF “SHEEPSKIN”

OUTRAGE IN DEAN FOREST – ENGINE DESTROYED

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE IN BLAKENEY

Walter Virgo and the Blakeney Gang Front CoverWalter Virgo and the Blakeney Gang Back Cover

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