Author: Richard Jones

Picture the scene. It is a bitterly cold London November morning in – oh I don’t know, let’s say the year is 1847. An elderly woman – her face cracked and wrinkled, every one of which is clogged […]

“London is a City to look up in,” is my mantra. I say it time and time again on my walking tours. Walk around London with your eyes pinned to the ground – or at least fixed on […]

Do you know where Britain’s smallest police station is? Go on, see if you can guess. I only ask, because I pass it on a regular basis and very rarely do I see people giving it a second […]

Over the last several blogs I’ve been dwelling rather a lot on murders and disappearances. So, today, I thought I’d lighten the mood a bit and venture into the London of Charles Dickens, specifically the London of his […]

It was January that the last of our fiendish Jack the Ripper quizzes got the synapses tingling and those little grey cells jiggling together in perfect unison. So, I’ve been back at the grindstone over the last few […]

By May 1890. the police investigation into the murder of Amelia Jeffs had thrown up no new clues as to who had committed the crime, and her murderer was still at large. Albeit – and reading between the […]

On Monday 10th March 1890, the final day of the inquest into the death of Amelia Jeffs took place. The hearing went into a great amount of detail and several witnesses who had previously given evidence were recalled. […]

On Monday 3rd March 1890, the inquest into the death of Amelia Jeffs,  resumed at the King’s Head in West Ham. THE EVIDENCE OF MRS JEFFS The first person to give her evidence that day was Amelia’s distraught […]

The aftermath of the Amelia Jeffs murder, which had taken place sometime between January 31st 1890 and February 14th 1890, saw a flurry of police activity and a great deal of newspaper speculation. The gentlemen of the press […]

In the previous article on the case of the teenage girl whose body was found in a box inside a carrier’s office on Goswell Road in January 1883, we discussed speculation that the body might be that of […]