On Saturday August the 6th, 1927, a calamity struck one of the buildings on Cornhill in the City of London. The Western Daily Press, in its edition of Monday the 8th of August, 1927. provided the following account […]
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I came across the following strange tale as I was perusing the Victorian newspaper archives. It appeared in The South Wales Echo on Thursday the 3rd of February, 1887:- AN EAST END MYSTERY Yesterday afternoon, at the Shoreditch […]
Read ArticleOn Friday August the 31st, 1888, the body of a woman, showing signs of terrible mutilations, was discovered in a dark gateway in Buck’s Row, in Whitechapel. That evening, several newspapers, provided their readers with as much detail […]
Read ArticleFollowing the murder of Mary Nichols, which took place on the morning of Friday, August the 31st, 1888, taking a critical look at several newspapers began taking critical looks at the police efforts to identify the victim and […]
Read ArticleOf all the murders that one reads about in the Victorian newspapers, none are so effecting as those of children, particularly when the perpetrator turned out to be one of the parents of the victim. Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, […]
Read ArticleDoctors are, on the whole, trusted members of society, and members of the profession, on the whole, have always had the well-being of people as their main priority. But, every so often, medical men have been known to […]
Read ArticleMysterious deaths were a regular occurrence in London in the Victorian era, and, no doubt, in almost every other era as well, right up to the modern day. What is intriguing is that we often known nothing about […]
Read ArticleI’m always up for a ghost story, and have covered several strange happenings that I uncovered in Victorian newspapers in these very pages. Tales such as the Plaistow Ghost, and the Wolstanton Ghost have been covered in these […]
Read ArticleMurder was extremely common in Victorian London, and many victims were just ordinary everyday people whose lives took a tragic twist. Many of their names of those murdered in London are now forgotten, and yet their stories are […]
Read ArticleI came upon another court case in the yellowed pages of an old newspaper the other day – one that, just like the appearances by the likes of Tottie Fay and Shiner Bob, made me wish I could […]
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