Amy Browell

Unsolved Murders

Age: 71

Sex: female

Date: 26 Feb 1959

Place: Churchill Street, Newcastle, Northumberland

Amy Browell was battered to death in front of the counter of her lock-up shop in Churchill Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the night of Thursday 26 February 1959.

It was thought that she had been murdered sometime between 3pm and 4pm.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see www.northumbria.police.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 2/9891

see Newcastle Journal - Wednesday 04 March 1959

see Shields Daily News - Monday 02 March 1959

see Newcastle Journal - Friday 29 May 1959

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Friday 27 February 1959

see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 27 February 1959

see Newcastle Journal - Thursday 19 March 1959

see Newcastle Journal - Wednesday 22 April 1959

see Shields Daily News - Saturday 28 February 1959

see Newcastle Journal - Saturday 28 February 1959

see The People - Sunday 05 April 1959

see Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 04 April 1959

see Shields Daily News - Saturday 04 April 1959

see Shields Daily News - Friday 27 February 1959

see Sunday Mirror - Sunday 05 April 1959

see Shields Daily News - Thursday 05 March 1959

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Saturday 04 April 1959

see Unsolved 1959