A Conversation for Spence Broughton - a Famous Corpse
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Started conversation Jul 31, 2011
Now I know something I didn't know about Sheffield. 
It set me researching, too, since the best-known mental hospital in North Carolina is called Broughton. (No connection, unless Spence was an ancestor of a North Carolina governor. But boy, would that place make a guide entry.)
Thanks for (vividly) explaining why those gibbets are de rigueur props in historical movies.
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