What a coincidence! Licenced two images today, to different buyers, both featuring gravestones in Heptonstall. The famous one is poet Sylvia Plath. “King” David Hartley was the leader of the Cragg Vale coiners, who produced fake gold coins in the late 18th century to supplement their meagre earnings from hand-weaving. They ‘clipped’ the edges of real coins, and melted down the shavings to create counterfeit coins, impressing a new design into the metal with a stamp and a hammer. David Hartley was hanged in York on 28 April 1770 (these days he'd probably be called an independent financial adviser)…
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