METROPOLITAN MURDERS - An examination of Five Grisly 20th Century London Crimes

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  • Dissenters Chapel

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  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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  • Sun, 10th Oct 2021 @ 15:30 - 17:00
  • 15:30 - 17:00

Join historian Robert Stephenson (aka Dr Death) as he re-evaluates five high-profile London murders, which set the nation talking and ended with the abrupt tightening of a noose of rope. 


Hear the shocking stories of wife-dismemberer Dr Hawley Crippen, who became the first criminal to be apprehended via the then cutting-edge technology of the telegram, as he and his lover attempted to flee to Canada by ocean liner; paranoiac fraudster John Haigh who disposed of his six victims’ bodies in a bath of sulphuric acid; Timothy Evans, who was the hapless victim of a miscarriage of justice when he was wrongfully convicted of the murder of his wife; serial murderer and alleged necrophiliac John Christie, the real killer of Evans’s wife and at least seven others at his infamous 10 Rillington Place address; and gun-toting sex worker Ruth Ellis, who shot her lover outside a pub in Hampstead. The last four of these murderers met their end at the hands of Britain’s last hangman Albert Pierrepoint before the abolition of the death penalty in 1965.

 
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at Kensal Green Cemetery

ROBERT STEPHENSON

Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London Culture and Heritage guide and a trustee at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He teaches on London and death studies. Robert is also chairman of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

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Metropolitan Murders
includes a delightful gin Cocktail
15:30 - 17:00 £12.00

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Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB

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Ladbroke Grove (Tube)


Getting there

JustPark

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A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city. Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported. The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.

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