The Gallows Pole Rise and fall of King David Hartley - Cragg Vale Coiners - Shane Meadows’ BBC drama
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The Gallows Pole
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Cast announced for Shane Meadows’ new BBC drama The Gallows Pole
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From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North.
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Hi Rob, a great vlog about a subject dear to my heart, as King David Hartley is my ancestor. I'm his great, great, great, great, great grandson so I know the history of the coiners in some depth. Bens book, the Gallows Pole, really is a fantastic book and I think accurately portrays the coiners as the rogues they most definitely were. There are elements of fantasy in the book and your vlog that are undoubtedly enhanced, such as the bodgers murder, though the coiners gang did murder a drunk labourer in one of the Heptonstall pubs when he threatened to inform on Deightons murderers.
A fantastic story that deserves to get a wider audience than it currently does, so thank you for helping bring it to peoples attention.
Wow!!!!...... I am so happy that you have viewed and commented on this vlog..... I am so chuffed 👍👍👍
John Hartley of Yorkshire is my great x 8 grandfather, I’ve traced back to around 1500. I’m in New Zealand. Nice to meet you cousin 👋🏼
i’m reading the book and i love it ❤️
Great insight, Steve. I'm watching this in preparation for Shane Meadow's show on TV next week. Fingers crossed it gets the wider coverage you hoped for 3 years ago
Hi Rob. You'll be pleased to know that we are currently filming The Gallows Pole with Element pictures and the BBC, im part of the crew, Directed by Shane Meadows. Very exciting project. Hope you will enjoy it when it's released.
I've enjoyed the book and I'm planning on doing this walk. So thankyou for making this vlog.
Hey Jamie thanks for this…. Im very excited to know that it is being dramatized…. Brilliant…. Im very interested in this news …. Thank you so much Jamie 👍👍👍
Just watched episode 1 on the BBC iplayer and found your wonderful vlog. Thanks so much for your tour of this beautiful area and bringing the story to life. Hope you are enjoying the dramatisation too. All the best.
Ey up… yes im enjoying the Gallows Pole on tv…. It has been said that its a bit sweary ha… and i kind of agree…. That said i am enjoying it…. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment 👍👍👍
Thanks for the vlog Robert! I finished the Gallows Pole just as we entered lockdown. Found the story fascinating and haunting, and I've been dying to get up there myself ever since. I think I'll make the pilgrimage on foot from Stockport with a bag of coppers. Good job you know your way around up there, I wouldn't fancy running into the ghost of Absalom Butts after dark if I lost my way!
Amazing..... so glad that i maybe helped with your enjoyment of a fabulous walk
You sir are a delightful fellow
Very kind words…. Thank you 👍
A great story and the bonus of actually seeing inside the house, great to have a hike and a story very well done! Brings the landscape to life.
So happy you enjoyed this vlog .... The story is fascinating..... I enjoyed making this one very much 👍👍👍
What an amazing vlog from an incredible story, topped off with a visit to the Bell House. Thank you Robert and to the owner of the historic house for sharing Yorkshire history with us.🙏👏👍
Hi 👋 I always appreciate your comments 👍👍👍
I’ve walked through those woods & over the moors many times & know the story of King David & the Cragg Coiners, but still really enjoyed Robert’s blog.
Just one thing though, Robert mentioned that Sowerby Bridge is 20 mikes away, when it’s only about 6-7 .
Thank you so much for your comments Stephen.... I really enjoyed the walk and the story has to be made into a film surely???... Thanks for watching 👍👍👍
Walking the coiners route tomorrow as a birthday treat!. Loved your vlog. Will be foggy, or as we like to say Yorkshire grey,. so nice to see what we could of won.
Hey Stuart 👍...... enjoy the walk.... the fog will set the scene nicely ha..... you will need your boots pal..... look out for the deer on the top of the moor..... Thanks for your comments and for watching 👍👍👍
I ride my bike up and down Cragg Vale regularly but never new these historical stories very interesting, well done! 👍
Thanks so much for your positive comments 👍👍👍
Brilliant vlog, can't wait for gallows pole to come out on BBC
Fascinating story, really well told Robert. Appreciate the research you must have done to put this all together. To be able to see inside his house was a bonus, shame you didn't find your bag of gold, you deserve it! 😉👍
Hi 👋 Anthony.... Glad you enjoyed the story.... Thanks so much for your positive comments and of course for watching.... 👍👍👍
Just found the gallows pole on a $.99 shelf at the used bookstore. Only a couple pages in so this really sets the scene, thank you very much. Very excited about this book like it's a lost chapter of the Baroque Cycle.
Excellent work, sir. All the best - Benjamin Myers
Thank you so much for watching.... glad you enjoyed it 👍👍👍... and thanks for the positive comments 👍👍👍
Just read ‘The Gallows Pole’. Interesting book, fascinating to see this vlog. Thank you so much Robert.
hi .... i always get a buzz with comments on this vlog.... i so enjoyed the story myself.... i just had to go and have a look to get a true feel for the place.... thanks
Great story. Lovely enthusiasm. Infectious. Nice work
Thank you so much for your kind comments.... I was amazed by the story...so just had to do something with it.... so happy you enjoyed it too..... cheers Danny...👍👍👍
Im his descendant, I’m a Hartley, my dad did research into our family long ago, and lead the family tree up to David Hartley.
I am a decendant of a lesser member the Cleggs
Great stuff Robert, an interesting walk and talk with the added bonus of a look around the house atb Dave
Hi Dave .... glad you enjoyed it.... I really enjoyed making it... Thanks again Dave 👍👍👍
Awesome. Great story! You did a fantastic job with this one!
Thank you so much for your comments on this one....I enjoyed making it 👍👍👍
wonderful, just finished the book. can't wait to get up there and have a good wander
hey thanks for commenting ..... do you know what i really enjoyed this vlog .... it is a fantastic book.....
What a great story Robert and very well told, you must have spent Hours researching, I felt Like we knew this Character by the End, you could certainly do a piece for the local regional TV, keep Looking for those Bags of Gold, ATB, Les.
That was a great watch. Reminds me of walking Haworth old road out of Hebden Bridge. So they were hung on the word of one man? A wonder they didn't just get ten of their own men to sign that nothing was going on.
Thanks for this…. And for watching…. Great comment 👍👍👍
I always enjoy your vlogs!! Great story. 👍
Thanks so much for watching and your positive comments 👍👍👍
Great vlog Rob! Very interesting history, you must have been worn out turning every rock over looking for bags of gold.
Cheers Len...👍... haha... yeah was worth a try.... Really enjoyed making this I find the story so interesting.... Thanks for your positive comments 👍👍👍
What a super account . I found a coin weight in my field in luddenden foot for a Portuguese Gold coin might be something to do with these rascals .
great story.
Thanks so much for your positive comments..... it was a very enjoyable vlog.... I agree it is a great story 👍👍👍
The book is badly written, edited and story told. Text is very loose with lyrical and pointless passages, repetition of names. It’s a shame that a true story has been ruined by an inept author and subsequent atrocious TV drama. Give both a miss and read the historical records which are more fascinating, insightful and thought provoking than Myers ramblings.