A strange theft The Shipley Times and Express Saturday 15 August 1891 At the Enfield Petty session James Nash, 40, of Sweet Briar Cottage, Edmonton, was charged with stealing a quantity of potatoes value at twopence, the property of Charles Richard Pike, farmer and market gardener. Nash was seen to pull the potatoes from theContinue reading “Three weeks’ hard labour for taking tuppence-worth of tatties “