The process of carrying out a piece of deception, or imposture, inventing a story or telling a lie. See Gag

Started (N.W.England)

A covering of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg [OED]

A small earthen glazed pot, esp. one used by apothecaries for ointments and medicines. (in jest or contempt). One who handles gallipots; an apothecary. Culinary vinegar was sold on draught in pharmacies as late as 1960

1 gallon = 8 pints or 4.54 litres 

Gammoned: Made a fool of, duped [OED]

Absurd, worthless, or manifestly false talk or ideas; rubbish, nonsense. 'Gammon and Spinach': nonsense, rubbish; humbug [OED]

Ganger: Leader of a gang of navvies who was often a sub-contractor for their labour.

Garrotters: Street robbers who stole from people in the street using actual or threatened violence. Garrotte robbery was initially used to describe a particular form of violence used but Garrotter came to be applied to any street robber. [i] The first newspaper references to Garrotters appeared in 1856 [ii] and the Norfolk News of 27th December 1856 printed a description of an anti-garrotting device. There was a second garrotting panic in 1862 which resulted in the Garrotters Act of 1863 [iii]

References:
[i] Sindall, R. The London garrotting panics of 1856 and 1862, Social History Vol. 12, No. 3 (Oct., 1987), pp. 351-359
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4285629?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
[ii] Morning Post (London) 11 November 1856
[iii] Sindall, ibid

Driven

[Palmer, Roy - A Touch on the Times Songs of Social Change 1770 to 1914 (Penguin Education, 1974) pp 62]

A very thin, transparent fabric of silk, linen, or cotton. [OED]

A Geographical index [OED]  

A soldier, either mounted or on foot (French gendarme à cheval, -- à pied), who is employed in police duties [OED]

A man-servant performing duties chiefly relating to the person of his master; a gentleman's personal attendant. A valet. (OED)

See Gentleman’s gentleman

A boat used to transport coal, especially from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to London

Queen Victoria. She had a German mother married a German - Prince Albert - and frequently spoke German in private.

A group of musicians playing chiefly brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. [i]
German musicians were a common feature of British pleasure resorts during the second half of the 19th century [ii] . The Musical Herald 1Dec 1899 reported "the band came from one village in the black forest. In the spring they am across to hull tramped through the country playing at various towns along the way. at their destination in time for the summer season. When the engagement was over they went straight home [iii]

References:
[i] [oed]
[ii] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Palatine_travelling_music_tradition (accessed 24Nov20)
[iii] Panikos Panayi - German immigrants in Britain during the 19th century, 1815-1914 (Oxford, Berg, 1995)

The North Sea was known as the German Ocean until the early 20th C., when hostilities with Germany meant this name became politically unacceptable in Britain

Gibbet To hang (a carcase) on a gibbet by way of infamous exposure. (gibbet = an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung in chains or irons after execution [OED]