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Showing posts with label threshing-machine breaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label threshing-machine breaking. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 July 2016

24th July 1816: Bury Quarter Sessions ends with sentences for machine-breakers and others

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 31st July 1816 carried details of the sentences for prisoners tried at the Bury Quarter Sessions for various...
Sunday, 17 July 2016

17th July 1816: Four jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham, Norfolk

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At the Norfolk County Session on Wednesday 17th July 1816, 4 prisoners were jailed for destroying a Threshing Machine at Hockham on 19th Ma...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

19th June 1816: Threshing Machine set alight at Worlington, Suffolk

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In the evening of Wednesday 19th June 1816, a Threshing Machine belonging to a farmer called Mr. Booty was set alight at Worlington, near Mi...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

24th May 1816: Crowd of 200 people intent on machine-breaking in Essex

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On Friday 24th May 1816, and having been successful in destroying a Threshing Machine at Finchingfield the evening before , a crowd of 200 p...
Monday, 23 May 2016

23rd May 1816: Threshing Machine destroyed at Finchingfield, Essex

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In the evening of Thursday 23rd May 1816, a crowd of people destroyed a threshing machine belonging to a John Smith at Finchingfield, Essex....
Sunday, 22 May 2016

22nd May 1816: Crowd at Clare in Suffolk celebrate the bailing of their comrade by destroying a threshing machine

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On Wednesday 22nd May 1816, Clare in Suffolk was once again the site for the destruction of a Threshing Machine. The Suffolk Chronicle of 25...
Friday, 20 May 2016

20th May 1816: Threshing machine destroyed at Sible Hedingham, Essex

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Some time on Monday 20th May 1816, a crowd of labourers destroyed a threshing machine at Sible Hedingham, in Essex.
Thursday, 19 May 2016

19th May 1816: 3 threshing machines destroyed in Norfolk & Suffolk

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On Sunday 19th May 1816, actions against threshing machines took place in both Norfolk & Suffolk. In the morning at Hockham in Norfolk...
Monday, 9 May 2016

9th May 1816; Threshing Machine attacked at Clare, Suffolk

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On Thursday 9th May, a Threshing Machine was attacked at Clare in Suffolk. Accounts of what happened vary, and it worth quoting two articles...
Wednesday, 20 April 2016

20th April 1816: Threshing machine destroyed at Cockfield, Suffolk

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The Bury & Norwich Post of 24th April 1816 carried a brief report about the destruction of a threshing machine at Cockfield on Saturday ...
Thursday, 7 April 2016

7th April 1816: Threshing machine destroyed at Myland, Essex

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Some time on Sunday 7th April 1816, a Threshing Machine belonging to James Posford was destroyed by arson at Myland Heath ('Mile End Hea...
Tuesday, 19 January 2016

19th January 1816: 19 men imprisoned for machine-breaking in Suffolk in 1815

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On Friday 19th January 1816, the Cambridge Chronicle carried reports from two recent Quarter Sessions in the county, where cases of machine ...
Monday, 23 November 2015

23rd November 1815: 3 threshing machines destroyed by 100 labourers in Suffolk villages

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On Thursday 23rd November 1815, mass machine-breaking broke out in Suffolk. The Bury & Norwich Post of 29th November carried a brief art...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

8th October 1815: 2 Threshing Machines destroyed at Chepstow

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The Gloucester Journal of Monday 16th October 1815 reported an incident that took place on the night of Saturday 7th October 1815, in which ...
Monday, 3 August 2015

3rd August 1815: Threshing Machine destroyed at Holbrook, Suffolk

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Some time during Thursday 3rd August 1815, and in a portent of what was to come the following year, a Threshing Machine was destroyed at Hol...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

1st April 1815: Gosbeck machine-breakers sentenced at Suffolk Assizes

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Suffolk Lent Assizes ended on Saturday 1st April 1815, and the nine men arrested for breaking threshing machines at Gosbeck on 21st February...
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

25th February 1815: Near riot in Ipswich as threshing-machine breakers are sent to Gaol

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The Great White Horse Hotel (formerly Inn) at Ipswich: where the magistrate Sir William Middleton took refuge amidst scenes of near riot. ...
Saturday, 21 February 2015

21st February 1815: 2 Threshing Machines destroyed at Gosbeck, Suffolk

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Tuesday 21st February 1815 saw the igniting of a spark in agricultural areas that would consume different parts of East Anglia over the comi...