There's two particular genres of local history that seem to be the most popular.
Crime and Punishment and Ghosts.
And why not? Ghosts and ghost stories have appealed to the masses for hundreds of years and the sheer brutality of yesteryears crimes and punishments engender a morbid fascination for many of us.
Heck we even wrote a book on Derby and Derbyshire crime and punishment and also a book on Haunted Derby.
But as thrilling as those stories are, it's important that we remember that most of them have victims - and we should respectfully remember them too.
In 1862 on Agard Street in Derby Richard Thorley murdered a woman called Eliza Morrow.
Richard went on to achieve infamy in Derby as the last man to be publicly executed here. But what of Eliza?
Eliza was only 26 years old when she was murdered and had her whole life ahead of her.
Living just off Agard Street itself, it's perhaps fair to assume that she was one of Derby's poorer citizens, but whatever potential did exist for her was snuffed out on 13th February 1862.
Her final resting place is an unmarked grave at Nottingham Road Cemetery.
The story of the murder is often re-told.
The story of ghostly sightings relating to the crime is often re-old.
And that's fine - it keeps the history alive.
But let's not ever forget Eliza and the numerous victims of our city's two-thousand year history while we tell those stories.
The memory of them deserves to be kept alive too.
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