Halifax coiners
In the 1760s 'King' David Hartley and his associates clipped gold coins and moulded the gold into counterfeit coins, often French, Spanish or Portuguese which were accepted currency. When an Excise officer, William Deighton, was too pressing in his investigations the gang took fright and shot him on 9 November 1769. A successful Halifax solicitor, Robert Parker, then investigated the case and the criminals were arrested. Robert Thomas and Matthew Normington were executed for the murder, and David Hartley and James Oldfield received the death penalty for clipping and diminishing the gold coins of the realm.
Themes
- Calderdale architecture
- Canals in Calderdale
- Chartism
- Colonel Edward Akroyd
- Crossley and Porter School
- Crossley family
- Factory conditions
- Famous people of Calderdale
- The manorial fulling mill
- Growth of education in Calderdale
- Halifax cinemas
- Halifax Moot Hall
- Halifax Theatres
- Hudsonites
- John Fielden
- John Mackintosh
- Military associations with Calderdale
- Musical associations of Calderdale
- Piece Hall
- Plug riots
- Poor law
- Railways in Calderdale
- Role and influence of women in Calderdale
- Social welfare
- Turnpike Roads in Calderdale
- Wainhouse Tower
- World War One
- Yorkshire Coiners
