Next to Vauxhall Bridge near Great Yarmouth Railway Station, Norfolk
At one time large rewards were given by London surgeons in exchange for bodies. In Great Yarmouth in 1827 Thomas Vaughan exhumed at least 10 bodies from the graveyard of St Nicholas Church. He was employed by the vicar's son Sir Astley Cooper an anatomist who also became surgeon to Queen Victoria. The recently buried bodies were loaded into crates and then on to trains to London. It's thought that more than 20 bodies were exhumed from the graveyard in the same year. Thomas Vaughan was jailed for the crimes while Sir Astley Copper is remembered as 'Surgeon to Guy's Hospital London Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria Anatomist Surgical Pioneer'.
This is part of a 28 panel mural, created and painted by local people which is next to Vauxhall Bridge near Great Yarmouth Railway Station. The mural illustrates key points in 170 years of the town’s history beginning with Yarmouth’s first railway in 1844.
Originally uploaded for the Guess Where Group www.flickr.com/groups/guesswhereuk/</a
Next to Vauxhall Bridge near Great Yarmouth Railway Station, Norfolk
At one time large rewards were given by London surgeons in exchange for bodies. In Great Yarmouth in 1827 Thomas Vaughan exhumed at least 10 bodies from the graveyard of St Nicholas Church. He was employed by the vicar's son Sir Astley Cooper an anatomist who also became surgeon to Queen Victoria. The recently buried bodies were loaded into crates and then on to trains to London. It's thought that more than 20 bodies were exhumed from the graveyard in the same year. Thomas Vaughan was jailed for the crimes while Sir Astley Copper is remembered as 'Surgeon to Guy's Hospital London Surgeon to King William IV and Queen Victoria Anatomist Surgical Pioneer'.
This is part of a 28 panel mural, created and painted by local people which is next to Vauxhall Bridge near Great Yarmouth Railway Station. The mural illustrates key points in 170 years of the town’s history beginning with Yarmouth’s first railway in 1844.
Originally uploaded for the Guess Where Group www.flickr.com/groups/guesswhereuk/</a