Gallows a broken neck rather than through strangulation, especially if extra weights were fixed to their ankles. During the era of public execution in London, England, a prominent gallows stood at Tyburn, on what is now Marble Arch. Later executions occurred outside Newgate Prison, where the Old Bailey now stands. Gallows A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame, typically wooden, from which objects can be hung or “weighed.” Gallows were thus widely used for public weighing scales for large objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a
The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) is the seventeenth solo studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond. The album is a collaboration with the composer John Harle and was released on Harle's Sospiro Noir label on 24 February 2014. "The Tyburn Tree (Dark London)" is a song cycle about "the macabre, supernatural history of the loved and reviled city" of London and is named after the famous Tyburn Tree gallows where many criminals were hanged. Almond and Harle had worked together before on the latter's 2013 album "Art Music", introducing Harle to what "Record Collector"