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At the top is a church attic. Medicinal plants once dried beneath the rafters. On one side are timber cupboards and the imagined scent of mint; on the other, steep rows face a table beneath…
Two buildings now dominate a district in which an entire lane disappeared. The Gothic mass of the law courts runs along one side. A church stands on its island in the traffic. There is no…
On one side of the road, West Cemetery rises through stone and foliage. Across from it, visitors enter the East side with maps and make their way towards Karl Marx’s grave. An ordinary…
London’s “time machine” does not stand in a laboratory or beneath a clock tower. It is a granite mausoleum approximately as tall as a two-storey house. Dark polished slabs rise to a…
In December 1811 there was no blue police tape on this road, no unified incident room and no detective responsible for every exhibit. When servant Margaret Jewell returned to the Marr house…
In August 1849, a policeman noticed that the mortar around one flagstone in the kitchen of 3 Minver Place was still soft. Beneath the floor was a shallow pit containing quicklime. Inside it…
At 10:11 on the evening of 9 July 1864, two bank clerks opened a first-class compartment at Hackney station. It was empty. One sat down and immediately found blood on his hand. There was…
On the evening of 18 April 1876, thirty-year-old barrister Charles Bravo went upstairs at The Priory in Balham. Soon a door opened and servants saw a man seized by violent vomiting, pain…
Before four in the morning on New Year’s Day 1886, Adelaide Bartlett woke the maid at 85 Claverton Street and sent her for Dr Alfred Leach. Then she roused the landlord, Frederick Doggett.…
In October 1891, a well-dressed doctor took rooms near St Thomas’ Hospital. He called himself Thomas Neill. He wore spectacles, spoke with North American experience and possessed the social…
London woke on Christmas morning 1872 to bells, closed shutters and the aftermath of a night’s celebration. At 12 Great Coram Street, one room remained unnaturally quiet. Harriet Wright,…
The Thames does not keep objects where they enter it. It carries, separates, delays and returns them. In the late 1880s, bundles containing parts of women’s bodies appeared across a…
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