by VauxhallHistory.org online editor Naomi Clifford On his way to the gallows at Kennington Common,[1]The spot where St Mark’s Church now stands. Jeremiah Lewis Abershaw did what many a condemned felon had done before him: during the mile-long journey from Horsemonger Gaol in Newington to the gallows he played to the crowd. Abershaw travelled to … Continue reading Kennington, 1795: a highwayman’s dance of death on the gallows