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Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« on: Tuesday 04 October 22 14:12 BST (UK) »
There is going to be a 'Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching' talk event on at Whitley Bay library on Thursday 13 October at 7 pm.
There will be a charge of £3 and booking is required.
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 14:41 BST (UK) »
Is this for anyone looking to start a new hobby?
Smith Tiplady Boulton Branthwaite King Miller Woolfall Bretherton Archer and many more

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 15:01 BST (UK) »
Quote from: emeltom on Tuesday 04 October 22 14:41 BST (UK)
Is this for anyone looking to start a new hobby?
emeltom, Thanks for that reply, I am still chuckling minutes after first seeing it. :)

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 16:39 BST (UK) »
I daresay you might pick up a few tips, if you're thinking of branching out Emeltom ... or are you just asking for a 'friend', nudge nudge, wink, wink. ;) 8)
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 04 October 22 18:40 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D
Smith Tiplady Boulton Branthwaite King Miller Woolfall Bretherton Archer and many more

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 06 October 22 12:58 BST (UK) »
Burke & Hare cashed in on the demand for corpses in Edinburgh by murdering folk not digging them up!

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 06 October 22 19:25 BST (UK) »
Quote from: emeltom on Tuesday 04 October 22 14:41 BST (UK)
Is this for anyone looking to start a new hobby?

Is there an Advanced Guide for anyone considering it as a career?  (Asking for a friend.)
Cowban

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #7 on: Friday 07 October 22 12:19 BST (UK) »
Poem from the time,

"Up the close and doon the stair, but & ben wi Burke & Hare,
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy who buys the beef!"

Professor Knox.

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Re: Beginner's Guide to Body Snatching talk event- 13 Oct 2022
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 09 October 22 16:14 BST (UK) »
I believe the technique for the grave robbing was digging a square hole to the head of the coffin, breaking the lid just enough to get at the corpse and pulling it out with hooks and ropes. Some were very skilled and left no trace as the grave was newly dug. In Scotland it was an offence to steal the grave clothes so they were left in the coffin.

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