From Hell, Hull and Halifax, Lord deliver us.

For those who don't know the last two in the old saying refer to the hulks on the Humber where prisoners were left to rot and the Halifax gibbet, a proto Guillotine for wrong do'ers that predated the French version by some way. You were allowed your freedom if you could remove yourself before the blade fell.
On such gruesome details did you know more people were executed by guillotine under the Nazis than during the French revolution?

I'm sure Hull is quite civilised these days, more so than my drinking trips in the late 70s when the Zoological Arms was still standing anyway.