Continuing with my collection of 19th century tales concerning people who my have endured the horror of being buried alive, I would like to bring you case from 1888, the year of the Jack the Ripper crimes. On […]
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As mentioned in my previous articles, the fear of being buried alive was a very real one in the latter half of the 19th century, and the newspapers quickly realised that such stories made good copy. I have […]
Read ArticleI would like to begin this article with a confession. I have for many years suffered with Taphephobia. It’s not acute, it’s not debilitating. It doesn’t keep me awake at night, and I’ve long since learnt to live […]
Read ArticleThe medical journal The Lancet in its edition dated December the 18th, 1858, published a letter from Dr. Richard Bird Mason, of Bridge Street Nuneaton, concerning a young girl who had come extremely close to being buried alive:- […]
Read ArticleAs the Jack the Ripper scare got underway in early September, 1888, The Star newspaper sent reporters out to question various members of the Metropolitan Police about how they viewed their “chief”, Sir Charles Warren, the Police Commissioner. […]
Read ArticleWell, another year has simply flown by, and it’s time to pit your wits against our final Jack the Ripper quiz of 2023. For those of you who are regular partakers of our monthly conundrums you probably don’t […]
Read ArticlePrior to her death, on the 31st of August, 1888, in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, Mary Nichols had been residing at a common lodging house at 18, Thrawl Street in Spitalfields. This lodging house was featured in a report […]
Read ArticleAlthough there is now a general belief that the Jack the Ripper spree ended with the murder of Mary Kelly on the 9th of November, 1888; those who lived through the horror of the autumn of terror did […]
Read ArticleThe Eastern Evening News, in its edition of Saturday, 13th October 1888, carried the following report of a robbery that had occurred a a Spitalfields common lodging house:- ROBBERY AT A LODGING HOUSE At Worship Street Police-court yesterday, […]
Read ArticleOn Friday the 14th of September, 1877, Thomas Pratt appeared before the magistrate Mr. Hannay, charged with the murder of Elizabeth Brockington. The Edinburgh Evening News covered the story of his court appearance in its edition of Saturday […]
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