#Murder

Sheldon Goodman

Aug 3, 2017
3 min

Murder on the Piccadilly Line

Gloucester Road Tube Station. The eastbound platform of the Piccadilly Line. You don’t know it, but you’re actually stepping into a crime scene. Being London, that’s hardly surprising. But the crime that happened here was inexplicable in the sense that there was no known motive, no witnesses and no clue. The story starts here, but ends a few stops away, down a path in Brompton Cemetery. It’s Friday 24th May 1957. The station was quiet. The clock struck 10:19pm. The train arri

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Sheldon Goodman

Aug 3, 2017
3 min

Murder on the Piccadilly Line

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Sheldon Goodman

Aug 24, 2016
2 min

Gruesome Tales, This Thursday!

The scene that met the Policemen made them collectively shudder. Robert and Nathaniel Coombes were calmly playing cards downstairs. Their mother was nowhere to be seen. But she was in the house. Upstairs, lying in bed, actually. Murdered. Her face had been largely devoured by maggots while rats had eaten her brain, heart and right lung. She’d been dead for ten days and it was an unusually hot summer. When the Police entered, Nathaniel, the younger brother, fled. Robert resolu

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Sheldon Goodman

Aug 24, 2016
2 min

Gruesome Tales, This Thursday!

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Sheldon Goodman

Apr 20, 2016
4 min

A Gangster’s Paradise

by Sheldon The people whose houses backed on to Chingford Mount Cemetery would be forgiven for thinking that the Resurrectionists had returned, early in the morning of the 15th of June 1934. Flickering torches slowly meandered their way through the darkness, the light catching the odd headstone here and there. Their flickering light barely illuminating some kind of movement, as if people were digging. Daybreak came and the midnight diggers left – with a coffin in tow. Back on

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Sheldon Goodman

Apr 20, 2016
4 min

A Gangster’s Paradise

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Sheldon Goodman

Mar 21, 2016
3 min

Amongst the Stones of Leytonstone

by Sheldon Multiple stone eyes gazed heavenward as myself and Paul entered a mass of marble in Leytonstone, East London. The second part of a day trip which had firstly taken us to Chingford Mount (a forthcoming post), we decided to explore this vast, crowded expanse of weathered, wonky crosses and angels. No music. Intense Excitement. No disorder. Leicester Mail, Monday 11th October 1869. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Very close to the entrance lies

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Sheldon Goodman

Mar 21, 2016
3 min

Amongst the Stones of Leytonstone

Multiple stone eyes gazed heavenward as myself and Paul entered a mass of marble in Leytonstone, East London. The second part of a day trip which had firstly taken us to Chingford Mount, we decided to explore this vast, crowded expanse of weathered, wonky crosses and angels. No music. Intense Excitement. No disorder. Leicester Mail, Monday 11th October 1869. Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Very close to the entrance lies a brutalist masterpiece, and wi

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Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

Sheldon Goodman

Jan 25, 2016
2 min

Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

by Sheldon © AFP 2015 Ticket alert! In two weeks time we’ll be kicking off our touring schedule for 2016 with our highly popular tour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park! Opened as the last of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Cemeteries in 1841; Tower Hamlets wasn’t quite the success its shareholders had hoped for – the rich flocked to West Norwood and highgate but because of the areas high social mobility and poverty from being close to the docks, the grandeur it was supposed to have wasn

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Sheldon Goodman

Jan 25, 2016
2 min

Murder, War & Gore: A Trip to the Long-Gone East End

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Sheldon Goodman

Dec 14, 2015
4 min

The Life and Death of William Terriss

Frederick Lane had not slept well. The Royal Entrance to the rear of the Adelphi Theatre, then and now. © British Newspaper Archive/Google, 2015. As the understudy to one of the leading lights of the Victorian acting world, his mind was already fraught with nerves, but the dream he’d endured the night before had shaken him badly. In this dream he had seen: ‘…Mr Terriss, lying in the landing, surrounded by a crowd, and he was raving…it was a horrible dream, and I couldn’t tell

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Sheldon Goodman

Dec 14, 2015
4 min

The Life and Death of William Terriss

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Sheldon Goodman

Jul 28, 2014
3 min

City of London Cemetery and Crematorium

It was an October morning 1888 when an Elm Coffin left the City mortuary in Golden Lane. This was no ordinary Coffin: and this could be verified by the thousands of people who lined the route it meandered on its way to the Ilford Cemetery. Not only did they line the route, but they adorned the rooftops and windows of buildings which overlooked the casket upon its final journey. It was never left unwatched. Upon its arrival at the ragstone gates of the Cemetery, many men, wome

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Sheldon Goodman

Jul 28, 2014
3 min

City of London Cemetery and Crematorium

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