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The character of Amelia Dyer also appeared in the short story "The Baby Farmer" by Philip Fracassi in his horror collection Behold the Void. [ 17 ] English folk singer Reg Meuross wrote a song about Dyer called "The Angel Maker", which is a track on his 2018 album Songs About A Train .
Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley region, covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in South East England. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales , covering 2,218 square miles (5,740 km 2 ) and a population of 2.42 ...
Berkshire Constabulary was merged with four other adjacent police forces in 1968 to form the Thames Valley Constabulary, later known as Thames Valley Police. Formed in 1856, the Constabulary was headquartered near Forbury Gardens in Reading , until it moved in 1952 to Sulhamstead House (then called the "White House"), purchased by the Berkshire ...
An advertisement that baby farmers John and Sarah Makin AKA The Hatpin Murderers responded to (from the Evening News 27 April 1892). The use of foster care in 18th-century Britain by middle-class parents was described by Claire Tomalin in her biography of Jane Austen, who was fostered in the 1760s in this manner, as were all her siblings, from when they were a few months old until they were ...
Oxford City Police was the police force of the City of Oxford, England.It policed the city from 1 January 1869 until 31 March 1968. It was established to succeed a "watch and ward" force that had been founded in 1835. On 1 April 1968 it and four other forces merged to form the Thames Valley Constabulary, wh
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Ada Chard Williams wrote a letter to the police denying the crime but in effect admitting she was a baby farmer who bought and sold babies for profit. The police soon discovered that Mrs Hewetson was Ada Chard Williams.
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