Category Archives: Murder

Murder on the Piccadilly Line

Posted on August 3, 2017 by SheldonKGoodman

by Sheldon 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography, History, London, Murder, Railway, War | Tagged Espionage, Gloucester Road, Knife, Murder, Piccadilly, Poland, Resistance, Soviet, Spy, Tube, War, Warsaw | 5 Comments

A Gangster’s Paradise

Posted on April 20, 2016 by SheldonKGoodman

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Murder, People, Photography, Visits | Tagged bunhill fields, Campo Santo, Cemetery, Chingford, Crime, Dissenter, E4, Gangster, Krays, London, Murder, Pollocks Toy museum, Suicide, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow | 1 Comment

The Life and Death of William Terriss

Posted on December 14, 2015 by SheldonKGoodman

by Sheldon Frederick Lane had not slept well. As the understudy to one of the leading lights of the Victorian acting world, his mind was already jittered with nerves but this dream had shaken him badly. On Thursday 16th December … Continue reading →

Posted in Biography, History, London, Murder, People | Tagged Adelphi Theatre, Anniversary, Brompton Cemetery, Crime Museum, Knife, Maiden Lane, Murder, Westminster, William Terriss | 1 Comment

Premiers, Luvvies and Angels: A Touch of Class In Hampstead

Posted on July 13, 2015 by SheldonKGoodman

by Sheldon Hampstead Cemetery has always been the preserve of the rich and famous, catering for the prosperous locals that have and continue to live in the surrounding area. After a short walk from West Hampstead tube and cutting through … Continue reading →

Posted in London, Murder, Music, Photography, Visits | Tagged Camden, Cemetery, Fortune Green, Fred terry, Garden, Hampstead, Marie Lloyd, North London, Suicide, Tidy, West | 5 Comments

Murder & Forbidden Love in Lewisham

Posted on June 2, 2015 by SheldonKGoodman

by Sheldon The people in what is now the present day London Borough of Lewisham must have breathed a sigh of relief in 1858. Much like the two for one deals that proliferate modern supermarkets today, the local people were … Continue reading →

Posted in History, London, Memorial, Murder, Photography, Visits | Tagged Brockley, Cemetery, Crofton Park, Deptford, Ernest Dowson, Florence and the Machine, Jane Clousen, Ladywell, Only If For a Night | 9 Comments

Death in Bayswater

Posted on February 23, 2015 by SheldonKGoodman

by Sheldon I was supposed to be researching a tour along a canal the following day, yet there I was, making a bee-line for Kensal Green Cemetery, walking a mile off course to find the grave of a man whose … Continue reading →