On Tuesday 10th October 2017 at 7:30pm at St Helen’s Church Hall, Stapleford, Michael Parkin will tell the story of the Pentrich rising.
The Pentrich rising was an armed uprising in 1817 that began around the village of Pentrich in Derbyshire but was quashed soon after it began. Three men were hanged and beheaded at Derby Gaol for their participation in the uprising: Jeremiah Brandreth, Isaac Ludlam and William Turner