The Camden Town Murder Nobody Saw
Walter Sickert titled a painting and group of works “The Camden Town Murder” after Emily Dimmock's death in 1907, but his sombre interiors are not depictions of the crime itself.…
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The Bermondsey Horror
In 1849 Frederick and Maria Manning murdered Patrick O'Connor and concealed his body beneath the kitchen flagstones of a house in Bermondsey. They fled separately, were captured,…
The House of Horror at Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place was both the scene of John Christie's crimes and the centre of one of twentieth-century Britain's most disturbing miscarriages of justice. Timothy Evans was…
The Horror at Cranley Gardens
In 1983 a blocked drain at 23 Cranley Gardens brought a plumber who discovered human remains. Resident Dennis Nilsen confessed to a series of murders of men committed first at…
The Krays and the Blind Beggar
The Blind Beggar entered criminal history on 9 March 1966 when Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell in the saloon bar. The killing belonged to a struggle between London criminal groups…
The Siege of Sidney Street
In January 1911 armed revolutionaries linked to Latvian underground groups were trapped by police in a Sidney Street house after a jewellery robbery and the murder of officers at…
Newgate Prison and Its Black Dog
The Black Dog of Newgate legend claimed that starving prisoners killed and ate a sorcerer or scholar, after which a monstrous hound hunted the guilty. Its best-known printed form…
The Tyburn Tree
Tyburn served for centuries as London's principal public execution place. Prisoners travelled from Newgate along a crowded route that became a theatre of punishment in itself. The…
The Tide for the Condemned at Execution Dock
Execution Dock at Wapping was used for pirates and offenders under Admiralty jurisdiction. The condemned travelled from the Marshalsea through London behind a silver oar…
The Clink: The Prison That Became a Word
The Clink was a prison in the Liberty of the Clink on the south bank, a jurisdiction controlled by the Bishop of Winchester. From the medieval period it held debtors, religious…
Where the Great Train Robbery Was Planned
The Star Tavern in Belgrave Mews West is associated with planning the 1963 Great Train Robbery, in which a gang stopped a Royal Mail train and stole more than £2.6 million. The…
London's Most Haunted House: 50 Berkeley Square
50 Berkeley Square gained a reputation as Victorian London's most terrifying address through newspaper stories of a locked room, a deranged resident and witnesses supposedly…