Towcester and District Local History Society
Wednesday, 12th November 2025 at 7.30 pm
Sawpits Centre, 14 Richmond Road, Towcester NN12 6EX
Speaker: Richard Blacklee
The Gang, a band of highwaymen, roamed the roads of Northamptonshire robbing, pillaging and being generally nasty. Four of them were executed on 3 August 1787 on the Racecourse, Northampton, one of whom, William Bowers, was a distant relative of Richard Blacklee.