When murders were committed in Victorian London, they were reported all over the world, often within a few hours of the crime having been perpetrated. This haste to get the news out there meant that the initial reports […]
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For this true crime tale, we’re heading south of the River Thames to the district of Southwark where, according to The Croydon Times, in its edition of Wednesday the 23rd of June 1869, a brutal murder had taken […]
Read ArticleThe Old Bull and Bush on North End Way, is a legendary Hampstead pub that, in the 19th century, was a favourite Sunday and Bank Holiday resort with Eastenders. It was immortalised in the song Down at the […]
Read ArticleThe Ten Bells Pub is a true survivor from the age of Jack the Ripper. Its interior, resplendent with a magnificent tiled wall panel depicting Spitalfields in olden times, has changed very little since the late 19th century, […]
Read ArticleToday I want to bring you a case from the 1850s that shares many similarities with the Netflix dram Baby Reindeer, even down to the fact that the two main protagonists shared a Christian name and an occupation […]
Read ArticleIn a previous article I featured the details of the murder of Mr. Shepherd, which took place in December, 1832. At the inquest into his death it was suggested that a man named Samuel Newland may have been […]
Read ArticleIn December, 1832, London was shocked by a terrible murder that had taken place in Clerkenwell, just to the north of the City of London. The Northampton Mercury gave full details of what had occurred in its edition […]
Read ArticleAlthough murders such as those committed by Jack the Ripper were shocking, and were given plenty of press coverage, there were, nonetheless, plenty of other murders that took place in London at the time. There were stories of […]
Read ArticleAs with so many tings, once the railways came, and made travel faster and more commonplace, people started figuring out what sort of crimes this new mode of transport could facilitate. All sorts of crimes and weird encounters […]
Read ArticleDorset Street, in Spitalfields, was the scene of the murder of Jack the Ripper’s final victim, Mary Kelly, on the 9th of November, 1888. A few years later, it became even more infamous as the worst street in […]
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