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Kidsgrove is a town in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Cheshire. It is part of the Potteries Urban Area, along with Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-L
Kidsgrove Town Hall
St Thomas' Parish Church
Catholic Church of St John
Heathcote Street
The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle occurred on 14 January 1975. Whittle, a teenage heiress, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Highley, Shropshire, by Donald Neilson, a notorious burg
Kidsgrove
…Market Street Halt, also on the loop line, between 1909 and 1950. In 1975, kidnapping victim Lesley Whittle was kept in Bathpool Park, south of Kidsgrove, in an air ventilation shaft from a disused coal mine. She was kept in the shaft for several weeks, with…
Lesley Whittle, pictured at her brother Ronald's wedding in October 1972
Donald Neilson and Lesley Whittle
The entrance to one of the drainage shafts at Bathpool Park. A search of this location by Scotland Yard on 17 January failed to locate several items left by Lesley's kidnapper.
The entrance to the drainage shaft at Bathpool Park where Lesley was held. Her body was discovered 54 feet (16 m) beneath this entrance.