#105 - Meux and the Man-Made Tidal Wave (aka the London Beer Flood)
On Monday 17th October 1814, at 5:30pm, an iron hoop on a vat of Porter beer at the Horseshoe Brewery would slip, it didn't seem like an emergency, but it would unleash a deadly tidal wave which would...
20 Aug 20201h 13min
#104 - The 'Elementary' Murder of William Raven (Marylebone, London, W2)
On Thursday 15th October 1942, in flat 34 of Chalfont Court at 236 Baker Street, the body of William Raven was discovered. He was an elegant sociable divorcee and co-owner of a gentleman’s outfitters ...
13 Aug 20201h 20min
#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)
On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bastard’ child, his wido...
6 Aug 20201h 14min
#102 - The Five Alibis of James Forbes McCallum (Covent Garden, London, WC2)
On Friday 20th December 1940, James Forbes McCallum robbed the Coach & Horses public house in Covent Garden; he was a desperate man whose first and only robbery was ill-judged, unplanned and such a ca...
30 Jul 20201h 13min
#101 - The Fatal Seizure of John Esmond Murphy (Soho, London, W1)
On Saturday 7th November 1908, at 11:40am, John Esmond Murphy walked into the bank of Cartmell & Schlittle at 84 Shaftesbury Avenue. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the fact that he bungled a heist, ...
23 Jul 20201h 17min
#100 - The Martyr and the Massacre (Westminster, Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer & Udham Singh)
On Wednesday 13th March 1940 at 4:30pm, in the Tudor Room of Caxton Hall, Udham Singh would murder Sir Michael O'Dwyer, a man he had never met before, but fuelled by hatred over twenty-one years, Udha...
16 Jul 20201h 9min
#99 - The Accidental Death of Amelia Pottle (Soho, London, W1)
On Sunday 29th May 1887, in the first-floor flat of 29 Great Windmill Street in Soho, twenty-year-old Amelie Pottle had a "little accident" with an oil-lamp which would lead to her slow and painful de...
9 Jul 20201h 12min
#98 - The Petty Grudge of Victor Castigador (Chinatown, London, W1)
At just before midnight on Sunday 2nd April 1989, Victor Castigador and his small gang of cohorts robbed the Leisure Investments amusement arcade at 23 Gerrard Street in Chinatown, but owing to a very...
2 Jul 20201h 17min
