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Inspired by my Ripper Street image I did some googling and found this photograph.
It is the Saint Andrews estate in Bartle Road... I was a Bricklayer here in the late 70's and I discovered only this week that I had been walking and working on  a notorious Murder Scene... this was John Reginald Christies home before we built St Andrews and Wesley Court!!! Spooky!
please note, image is copyright of John Curnow and is on display at www.10-rillington-place.co.uk and John is about to publish a book on the matter.
Interesting how things turn out...! :-)
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Bartle Road, the turning alongside the railway arches, was the site of the infamous "10 Rillington Place" where the serial killer "Christie" lived and carried out his atrocities in the late 1940's & early 50's.
This photo was taken from St. Mark's Road, W11.
Obviously, the old street with it's slum dwellings was demolished years ago, although it did have a name change to Ruston Close following the murder trial and the subsequent execution by hanging of the evil, Christie.
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John Hurt - by Stanley Reilly
From a book by the photographer Stanley Reilly, Being There: A Personal Photographic Record of Sixties London. The caption says it was taken at the premiere of 10 RILLINGTON PLACE, but on other photos of that event John is wearing something quite different, so I wonder if this is correct.
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There's no graffiti in our village, and none in the closest town. So I have re-created the first bit of graffiti that I ever noticed - and it has stayed clearly in my mind over the intervening decades. As a student in Leeds I walked past this enigmatic message on the red brick terrace gable end every morning on my way to lectures, and back again at night. So I wanted to know about Timothy Evans, who he was and why I should remember him!
He was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife. In 1953 another man, John Christie, was rightly found guilty of the murder (and others). Ludovic Kennedy campaigned and wrote the book '10 Rillington Place' in 1955. Timothy Evans was exonerated, but no-one could give him his life back. The case became one of the main arguments in favour of abolishing the death penalty for murder. This was finally enacted in 1965.
Whoever wrote that particular piece of graffiti, I thank him/her! Without that constant message I would not be so aware of the events that lead up to our decision to live as a society that doesn't resort to the death penalty!
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posted February 05, 2014 at 06:52PM: guywoodhouse: 10 Rillington Place (1971)
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My evening walk took me past the childhood house of a man whose most famous address was 10 Rillington Place. Black Boy House is not quite so famous but the views are nicer.
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British autograph card, 1949.
English actor, film director and producer Richard Attenborough (1923) won two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is known for his roles in Brighton Rock (1947), The Great Escape (1963) and Jurassic Park (1993).
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was born in Cambridge, England in 1923. ‘Dickie’ was the eldest of three sons of Mary Attenborough née Clegg a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Richard’s brothers were nature documentarian David Attenborough and John Attenborough, who was an executive at Alfa Romeo before his death in 2012. Attenborough was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At the age of 12, his acting career had started when he appeared in shows at Leicester's Little Theatre. Attenborough's film career began in an uncredited role as a deserting sailor in the war film In Which We Serve (Noël Coward, David Lean, 1942). During the Second World War Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force. After initial pilot training he was seconded to the newly-formed RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios, under the command of Flight Lieutenant John Boulting where he appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the propaganda film Journey Together (John Boulting, 1943-1945). He then volunteered to fly with the Film Unit and after further training, where he sustained permanent ear-damage, qualified as a sergeant, flying on several missions over Europe filming from the rear gunner's position to record the outcome of Bomber Command sorties. After the war, he made his breakthrough as a psychopathic young gangster in the film of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock (John Boulting, 1947), a part that he had previously played to great acclaim at the Garrick Theatre in 1942. Brighton Rock received critical acclaim and was the most popular British film of 1947. After that, he was type-cast for many years as working-class misfits or cowards in films like The Guinea Pig (Roy Boulting, 1948) in which the 26-year-old Attenborough was wholly credible as a 13-year-old schoolboy, London Belongs to Me (Sidney Gilliat, 1948) with Alastair Sim, and the naval drama Morning Departure (Roy Ward Baker, 1950) starring John Mills. In 1949 exhibitors voted Attenborough the 6th most popular British actor at the box office.
In 1952, Richard Attenborough starred in the original West End production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, which went on to become the world's longest-running stage production. He took a 10% profit-participation in the production, which proved to be a wise business decision. During the 1950s, Attenborough worked prolifically in British films and appeared in successful comedies, such as Private's Progress (Roy Boulting, 1956) opposite Ian Carmichael, and I'm All Right Jack (Roy Boulting, 1959), also with Dennis Price. In the late 1950s, Attenborough formed a production company, Beaver Films, with Bryan Forbes. He began to build a profile as a producer on projects including the crime drama The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden, 1959), the drama The Angry Silence (Guy Green, 1960) with Pier Angeli, and Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes, 1961) starring Hayley Mills. In the first two he also performed as an actor. In 1963 he appeared in the ensemble cast of The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) as RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (‘Big X’), the head of the escape committee and based on the real life exploits of Roger Bushell. It was his first appearance in a major Hollywood film blockbuster and his most successful film up to that time. During the 1960s, he expanded his range of character roles in films such as Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964) and Guns at Batasi (John Guillermin, 1964), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM). In 1965 he played Lew Moran opposite James Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1965) and in 1967 and 1968, he won back-to-back Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Supporting Actor, the first time for The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1967), co-starring Steve McQueen and the second time for his comedic turn as a circus owner in Doctor Dolittle (Richard Fleischer, 1968) starring Rex Harrison. His feature film directorial debut was the all-star screen version of the hit musical Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough, 1969). Sergio Angelini in Directors in British and Irish Cinema: “a project inherited from John Mills, who had developed the screenplay with Len Deighton from Joan Littlewood's stage production. This satiric fantasia on the First World War is largely set on Brighton Pier, but Attenborough and cinematographer Gerry Turpin successfully open out the play with a number of bravura sequences, the best remembered being the final shot which pulls back to reveal an entire hillside covered in white crosses.” He later directed two epic period films: Young Winston (Richard Attenborough, 1972), which starred his favourite leading man, Anthony Hopkins, as Winston Churchill, and A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977), an all-star account of Operation Market Garden in World War II. His acting appearances became sporadic as he concentrated more on directing and producing. His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer, 1971) garnered excellent reviews and he also played to great acclaim in Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece The Chess Players (1977). Following his appearance in The Human Factor (Otto Preminger, 1979), he stopped with film acting for more than a decade.
In 1982, Richard Attenborough finally realized a project he had been attempting to get made for 18 years: Gandhi , featuring Ben Kingsley. It proved to be an enormous commercial and critical success. Gandhi won eight Academy Awards, and Attenborough himself was awarded with the Oscar for Best Director and as the film's producer, the Oscar for Best Picture. He also won the Golden Globe as Best Director  in 1983 for his historical epic. He also published his book In Search of Gandhi, another product of his fascination with the Indian leader. Attenborough then directed the screen version of the musical A Chorus Line (Richard Attenborough, 1985) and the anti-apartheid drama Cry Freedom (Richard Attenborough, 1987), based on the life and death of the prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and the experiences of Donald Woods. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films. His most recent films as director and producer include the underrated Chaplin (Richard Attenborough, 1992) starring Robert Downey, Jr. as Charlie Chaplin and Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough, 1993), based on the relationship between C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) and Joy Gresham (Debra Winger). He made his come-back as an actor as the eccentric owner of a dinosaur theme park in Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) and the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1997). He also starred in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street (Les Mayfield, 1994). Since then he has made occasional appearances in supporting roles, including as Sir William Cecil in the historical drama Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur,1998) with Cate Blanchett, Jacob in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (David Mallet, 1999) and as The Narrator in the film adaptation of Spike Milligan's comedy book Puckoon (Terence Ryan 2002). He made his only appearance in a Shakespeare film when he played the British ambassador who announces that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead at the end of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).
Richard Attenborough has been married to English actress Sheila Sim since 1945. With his wife, they founded the Richard and Sheila Attenborough Visual Arts Centre. He also founded the Jane Holland Creative Centre for Learning at Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland in memory of his elder daughter. Jane Holland, her mother-in-law,  and her 15-year-old daughter Lucy were killed in 2004 when a tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake struck Khao Lak, Thailand where they were holidaying. Attenborough has two other children, Michael and Charlotte, an actress. Michael is a theatre director and the Artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in London. In 1967, Richard Attenborough was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1976 and in 1993 he was made a life peer as Baron Attenborough, of Richmond upon Thames. At 84, he made his last film as director and producer, Closing the Ring (Richard Attenborough, 2007). According to Jascon Buchanan at AllMovie, “Sixty-five years after making his screen debut as a young stoker in co-directors Noël Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve, Richard Attenborough perfects the balance between epic story and intimate tale with this drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell as a mother and daughter who find a relic from the past sparking an incendiary series of events.” Attenborough served as vice president (1973–1995) and president (2002–2010) of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and as president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (2003– ). For 33 years he was President of the Muscular Dystrophy campaign, and he is also the patron of the United World Colleges movement. He passionately believes in education, primarily education that does not judge upon colour, race, creed or religion. In 2008 Attenborough published, in association with his long standing associate Diana Hawkins, an informal autobiography Entirely Up to You, Darling. Later that year he entered hospital with heart problems and was fitted with a pacemaker. In December 2008 he suffered a fall at his home after a stroke, and went into a coma, but came out of it within a few days. Shortly before her 90th birthday, in June 2012 Sheila Sim entered the actors' home Denville Hall, for which she and Attenborough had helped raise funds. In March 2013, in light of his deteriorating health, Attenborough moved into Denville Hall to be with his wife.
Sources: Sergio Angelini (Directors in British and Irish Cinema), Jason Buchanan (AllMovie), Encyclopaedia Britannica, AllMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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RILLINGTON PLACE (Now Bartle Road, Ladbroke Grove)
This quiet looking cul-de-sac in Ladbroke Grove, West London has a dark and sinister history. Bartle Road was built in the late 1970s and occupies where Rillington Place once stood. Serial killer, John Christie murdered at least eight women between 1943 and 1953 and concealed their bodies in and around 10 Rillington Place. Christie was hanged at Pentonville in 1953 and the road was renamed Ruston Close shortly after. Ruston Close was demolished in the early 1970s and was replaced by the present development. The site of No.10 Rillington Place was never built on and is now largely obscured by trees and bushes
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The Electric Cinema first opened in London's Portobello Road on 24 February 1910 and has remained in almost continual use until the present day.
During the late 1940s the notorious mass murderer John Christie (1899–1953) of nearby 10 Rillington Place is said to have worked at the Electric as a projectionist.
The Electric is a Grade II* Listed building.
Electric Cinema
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The Electric Cinema first opened in London's Portobello Road on 24 February 1910 and has remained in almost continual use until the present day.
During the late 1940s the notorious mass murderer John Christie (1899–1953) of nearby 10 Rillington Place is said to have worked at the Electric as a projectionist.
The Electric is a Grade II* Listed building.
Electric Cinema
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The Electric Cinema first opened in London's Portobello Road on 24 February 1910 and has remained in almost continual use until the present day.
During the late 1940s the notorious mass murderer John Christie (1899–1953) of nearby 10 Rillington Place is said to have worked at the Electric as a projectionist.
The Electric is a Grade II* Listed building.
Electric Cinema
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Sad news breaking has the Legendary British actor and film director Richard Attenborough having passed away at the age of 90. Born in 1923, he was best known for his iconic roles in the likes of BRIGHTON ROCK, THE GREAT ESCAPE, 10 RILLINGTON PLACE and JURASSIC PARK, and died at lunchtime on...
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I have covered the location of 10 rillington place previously in my stream...Now for a couple location shots.......Heres Part 2.....Next scene from previous shot,a Police Officer walks past John Reginald Christie but reconizes him....This part of the Embankment got refurbished in the Eighties,the old rails look better!...Tree has got a lot thicker.....Stand by for more Putney images shortly.............
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I have covered the location of 10 rillington place previously in my stream...Now for a couple location shots..........Top frame Richard Attenborough as John Reginald Christie strides down the steps outside the Star & Garter Pub in Putney....Which was first noted on the Map of Putney in 1787,and was Originally built as a Hotel.....Telephone Booth was probably placed there by film crew,unless you know different.....The Platt Housing is at the back.........
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One of the most famous addresses in Britain's crime history is 10 Rillington Place - the west London home of murderer John Christie, who was hanged in 1953.
The street was re-named in an attempt to remove the association - but the house was demolished in the 1970s.
IT is now an unassuming small garden but local Reg Groves, 79, said: "Everyone knows a mass murder took place in the vicinity."
Today St Andrew's Square is the location of the house where John Christie killed at least seven women in the '40s and '50s. The murder house was demolished in 1970.
Reg, who is the Square's gardener, added: "We rarely get curious visitors now but there used to be a guided tour of the site."
Such unhappy memories can prove too difficult for anyone to live with.
Rillington Place was a cul-de-sac with ten houses on either side. The houses had three floors, but they were small, mean, narrow and shabby. Anyone who has seen the film, 10 Rillington Place, will have an idea of the cramped nature of the accommodation; the movie's inside shots were filmed at number 8 - a house which was identical in design to Christie's home - and the external scenes were staged outside the real number 10.
No.10 was divided into three flats. The Christies had the ground floor; the first floor which consisted of a kitchen, bedroom and living room, was occupied by a Mr Kitchener, a man of over 60 with poor eyesight. The top floor, which comprised only a bed-sitting room and a kitchen, was then unoccupied. The plan shows the ground floor to be divided into living room, bedroom and kitchen. At the back of the kitchen was an alcove used for storing coal. A wash house could only be accessed from the yard at the back. This measured 52 by 54 inches. There was also a lavatory; the only one available for all three floors. The "garden" was actually a piece of wasteland some 20 ft square.
John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was an English serial killer active in the 1940s and 1950s.
He murdered at least six women—including his wife Ethel—by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place in March 1953, and shortly afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in an alcove in his kitchen.
Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged in 1953.
Serving in the infantry during the First World War, Christie was injured in a gas attack that he claimed left him permanently unable to speak loudly.
He turned to crime following his discharge from the army and was imprisoned several times, for offences including theft and assault. On the outbreak of war in 1939, he was accepted for service as a Special Constable, when the authorities failed to check his criminal record.
He committed his murders between 1943 and 1953, usually by strangling his victims after he had rendered them unconscious with domestic gas.
Christie raped some of the women as they lay unconscious.
Substantial controversy surrounds the responsibility for the deaths of Beryl Evans and her daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl's husband Timothy, were tenants at 10 Rillington Place during 1948 and 1949.
Timothy Evans was charged with both murders, found guilty of the murder of his daughter, and hanged in 1950. Christie was a key prosecution witness, but when his own crimes were discovered three years later, serious doubts were raised over the integrity of Evans's conviction; Christie himself also subsequently claimed to have killed Beryl Evans, although he never mentioned having killed Geraldine.
In an official inquiry conducted 1965–6, Justice Sir Daniel Brabin concluded that it was "more probable than not" that Evans killed his wife but that he did not kill his daughter Geraldine.
This finding, challenged in subsequent legal processes, enabled the Home Secretary to grant Evans a posthumous pardon for the murder of his daughter in October 1966.
The case contributed to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in the United Kingdom in 1965.
Time was almost up for Christie. He had no money and no job. He was able to sublet the flat (without the knowledge of his landlord), taking three months rent in advance. He packed his case and left. The landlord arrived, pointed out that Christie had no right to sublet  and made the new tenants leave. During his visit, the landlord granted permission for one of the existing tenants to use the Christies’ kitchen. During the next few days the tenant cleared out the rubbish. On 24th March, wanting to put up some wall brackets, he discovered the papered-over alcove, peeled back some paper and shone his torch inside. The horrible secret of 10 Rillington Place had beeen uncovered.
Police officers who searched the house, outbuildings and garden were stunned and disgusted by the things they found - the victims' bodies, a human leg bone used to prop up a garden fence, a tobacco tin full of pubic hair snipped from a number of different people.
Christie wandered aimlessly about London for a few days, and on 31st March he was spotted and recognised by a Police Constable, who arrested him. Christie later made numerous confessions, many of then varying in detail, in which he admitted to the killing of all the women whose bodies were found in the house and the garden. When the killing was that of a prostitute he stated that they had forced their attentions on him, and began to fight him. With the murders of Mrs Christie, Muriel Eady and Beryl Evans, he claimed that they had been suffering and depressed and he had put them out of their misery.
Christie did not appeal his conviction, and on 15 July 1953 he was hanged at Pentonville Prison by Albert Pierrepoint, who had also hanged Evans.
Although Christie was never officially accused of killing Beryl, it seems likely that he pretended to have medical knowledge and offered to abort her baby. Unable to resist the opportunity to rape and kill an attractive young woman, Christie could have silenced Timothy Evans by passing off his wife's death as an accident during an illegal operation. Evans was persuaded to go to Wales and lie low whilst the Christies took care of baby Geraldine. By the time that Evans had second thoughts and went to the police in Wales, the child was already dead. Evans, still thinking that Christie was his friend, told a tale which was perhaps designed to shield the older man. A police search found the bodies of both his wife and child (though Beryl's body was not hidden where Evans had stated) and - whilst still shocked at the news of little Geraldine's death - the intellectually-challenged van driver confessed to killing both of them.
At his trial, Evans was charged with killing Geraldine and Christie was the chief witness against him. Though Evan's advocates attacked Christie as an ex-convict and unreliable source of information (Christie lost his job when his old convictions were mentioned in the newspapers), the Judge actually commended him for the value and clarity of his testimony. Evans was found guilty and hanged.
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there's some confusion as to where Rillington Place used to be?
Rillington Place was renamed Ruston Close in May 1954, and finally demolished at the end of 1970, shortly after it served as the location for the Richard Fleischer film in which Richard Attenborough is a convincingly creepy Christie.
It's surprising, given the location's notoriety, that there's some confusion as to where Rillington Place used to be. The residents of nearby Ruston Mews make it clear that their surviving street is not the original Rillington Place, as many visitors apparently believe.
There is a small silent Pathe news clip of the demolition of the Notting Hill street where notorious murderer John Christie lived.
In fact, Number 10 Rillington Place is now occupied by 22-29 St Andrew’s Square.
The location is definitively nailed by an old map overlaid onto Google Maps sat view.
Rillington Place had its name changed to Ruston Close but number ten continued to be rented out to tenants.
In 1960 Television West and Wales was allowed access to film inside the property.
But in the early 1970s - after the film 10 Rillington Place was filmed - the whole street was demolished.
The exact site - not far from Bartle Road - has now been built over.
Great Crimes And Trials John Christie of Rillington Place 1992
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those with a morbid curiosity and who saw my previous picture this is the back view of the old rillington place,now called bartle road and here is the square,which is between bartle and lancaster road now called wesley square..and by my calculations and studying old maps and doing research the area in black and white is approximately  where the back garden to `10 rillington place`was
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CathyLomax, '27.08.09. The family stood outside the house and felt happy to be there' (from the 'Film Diary' series), 2009, oil on canvas paper, 24x30cm.
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Actor of many films such as 10 rillington place.
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Ladbroke Grove - the quiet end
Once Ben had arrived and David had given up waiting for the staff to get him a cup of coffee, we headed up Ladbroke Grove, past the police station where JGB says in “Miracles of Life” that he saw a crowd awaiting the arrival of John Christie, who had just been arrested for the murders at 10 Rillington Place.
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The site of 10 Rillington Place , as pinpointed by Tom Vague in "Rachman, Riots and Rillington Place."
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for those with a morbid curiosity..top picture a still from the 1971 `10 rillington place `film note andrews garage at the end of the street,and a photo from june 2008 andrews garage is still standing..rillington place was renamed ruston close  in the mid fifties then a new estate was built in the seventies  and it is now named bartle road new flats and a square is where the houses are on the left...check the next picture in my stream....for another grisly rillington place snap...
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The best thing about having children..
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Albert Pierrepoint - Period in office - 1932 - 1956
Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of a family who provided three of the United Kingdom's official hangmen in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Clayton, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. During his life, he lived in Bradford, Lincoln, Oldham and the seaside resort of Southport.
Albert Pierrepoint was the middle child and eldest son of Henry and Mary Pierrepoint. He was influenced by the side-occupation of his father and uncle; as an 11-year-old he wrote, in response to a school "When I grow up ..." exercise, "When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner". He spent his school summer holidays at the home of his Uncle Tom and Aunt Lizzie in Clayton, his own family having moved to Huddersfield when Henry ceased to be an executioner, and he became very close to his uncle. While Tom was away on business, his aunt would allow the boy to read the diary Tom kept of his executions. In 1917, at the age of twelve, he began work at the Marlborough Mills in Failsworth, near Oldham, earning six shillings a week. Following Henry's death in 1922, he took charge of Henry's papers and diaries, which he studied at length. Towards the end of the 1920s he changed his career, becoming a drayman for a wholesale grocer, delivering goods ordered through a travelling salesman. In 1930 he learned to drive a car and a lorry to make his deliveries, earning two pounds five shillings (£2.25) a week. On 19 April 1931, Pierrepoint wrote to the Prison Commissioners offering his services as an Assistant Executioner to his uncle should he or any other executioner retire. Within a few days he received a reply that there were currently no vacancies.
On 29 August 1943, Pierrepoint married Annie Fletcher, who had run a sweet shop and tobacconist two doors from the grocery where he worked. They set up home at East Street, Newton Heath, Manchester. At some point in time, and unknown to Albert, Annie learned of his "other career", but for many years she did not ask him about it, waiting for him to raise the topic. The couple first discussed the matter after he returned from Gibraltar in January 1944, where he had conducted a double execution.
Pierrepoint was by far the most prolific hangman of the twentieth century having executed an estimated 433 men and 17 women in his twenty four years of service in this country and abroad.
He learnt his trade assisting his uncle Tom and is credited with the quickest hanging on record when he, assisted by Sid Dernley, executed James Inglis in only 7 seconds on the 8th of May 1951 at Strangeways in Manchester. His first execution as 'Number 1' was that of gangster, Antonio 'Babe' Mancini at Pentonville Prison on the 17th October 1941. He was assisted in this by Steve Wade.
Some of his notable executions were : Neville George Clevelly Heath who was hanged on the 16th of October 1946 at Pentonville Prison for the sexual/sadistic murder of Margery Gardner who was found dead in a hotel bedroom. When discovered she was lying on her back, in one of the single beds nearest to the door. She was naked and had her ankles bound with a handkerchief. She had a lot of bruising to her face and her nipples had been almost bitten off. Something had been inserted into her vagina and sharply rotated. On her back were seventeen criss-cross lash marks. The cause of death had been suffocation, but only after the horrific injuries had been inflicted.
Hanging of American soldiers WW2
During World War II, Pierrepoint was called upon to assist with or be principal in the hangings of the 16 American soldiers executed for murder and rape at Shepton Mallet military prison in Somerset. After the war Albert made several visits to Austria and Germany and on the 13th of December 1945 hanged 13 German war criminals at Hameln jail including Irma Greese, Elizabeth Volkenrath and Juana Boreman and ten men including the 'Beast of Belsen' Josef Kramer. He is thought to have hanged around 200 Nazis in all.
Irma Greese Nazis War Crimes
She was among the 44 accused of war crimes at the Belsen Trial. She was tried over the first period of the trials (September 17 - November 17, 1945) and was represented by Major L. Cranfield. The trials were conducted under British military law in Lneburg, and the charges derived from the Geneva Convention of 1929 regarding the treatment of prisoners. The accusations against her centred on her ill treatment and murder of Allied nationals imprisoned at the camps, including setting dogs on inmates, shootings and sadistic beatings with a whip.
She was convicted of crimes committed at both Auschwitz and Belsen and sentenced to death by hanging. Her subsequent appeal was rejected. Ten others were also sentenced to death including two other women, Juana Bormann and Elisabeth Volkenrath, with whom she stayed up the night before their execution, laughing and singing Nazi songs. Executed at Hameln jail by Albert Pierrepoint, she was the youngest woman to die judicially under English law in the 20th century.
She showed no remorse, and her final words to Pierrepoint were: 'Quick, get it over'.
Hanged by Pierrepoint
Another famous case was that of 'Lord Haw-Haw', real name, William Joyce, whom Pierrepoint hanged at Wandsworth for treason on the 3rd of January 1946. John George Haigh the famous 'Acid bath murderer' came Pierepoint's way on the 10th of August 1949 at Wandsworth Prison for the murder of Mrs. Durand -Deacon. Her gall stone and dentures were not dissolved by the acid in which he had dissolved the rest of her body and remained to convict Haigh.
Derek Bentley was hanged on the 28th of January 1953, at Wandsworth, for his part in the murder of PC Miles. The case has been the subject of books and the film 'Let him have it' and efforts for a pardon for Bentley continue to this day. (He was finally found to have been innocent in 1998).
Another controversial case was that of Timothy John Evans whom Albert hanged on the 9th of March 1950 at Pentonville for the murder of his wife at 10 Rillington Place the home of John Reginald Christie. Christie admitted killing seven women in total. He was hanged on the 15th of July 1953 at Pentonville Prison. In 1966 Evans was granted a posthumous pardon. On the 13th of July 1955 at Holloway Prison, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Pierrepoint resigned over a disagreement about fees in 1956. He had gone to Strangeways on a cold day in January 1956 to hang Thomas Bancroft. He arrived at the prison only to find that Bancroft was reprieved. He claimed the full fee of £15, (more than £200 at today's prices), but was offered just £1 in out-of-pocket expenses by the under-sheriff of Lancashire.
Pierrepoint appealed to his employers, the Prison Commission, who refused to get involved. The under-sheriff sent him a cheque for £4 in final settlement. But to Pierrepoint this was the end of the road and a huge insult to his pride in his position as Britain's Chief Executioner. He also wrote his autobiography 'Executioner - Pierrepoint' which is still available. Albert was landlord of a public house 'Help The Poor Struggler' beerhouse in Manchester Road in Hollinwood, Oldham. Pierpoint had been landlord since he took over in 1946, having been executioner since 1931. He died, still in residence, on 11th July 1992 at the age of 87. His death was announced on the BBC midnight news. He was said to pull a good pint! The public house, which ended its days as an electrical shop, was demolished in the 1980's.
September 17, 2005 - Pierrepoint Film
New British made film The Last Hangman (UK, director Adrian Shergold): Between 1933 and 1955, Albert Pierrepoint was Britain’s Chief Executioner, responsible for more than 600 hangings. Timothy Spall gives a devastating performance as a decent man engaged in the loneliest of professions. The title is somewhat misleading. Hangings were carried out until 1964, but Pierrepoint was the last man to hold the official office of Chief Executioner.
As the film begins, Pierrepoint is proud to be offered a job as a hangman, following in his father’s and uncle’s footsteps. Since he’s only needed every few months, he maintains his job as a grocer’s deliveryman and keeps his moonlighting a secret from his friends and even his wife (Juliet Stevenson). He is very good at his new profession, and is determined to complete each job as quickly and humanely as possible. It’s a bit odd seeing him trying to shave seconds off the time required for each execution, much like a professional athlete trying for a world record. That is, until you realize that his desire is for the prisoner to have as little time as possible to be afraid. After each execution, it falls to Pierrepoint to cut down the body and prepare it for burial, and it’s touching to see the tenderness he displays. After the execution of one woman, he tells his assistant, 'She’s paid the price, now she’s innocent.'
Pierrepoint’s reputation grows and after the war, he’s flown to Germany by the British Army and placed in charge of executing scores of Nazi war criminals. As a result, his secret is leaked to the press, who now broadcast his identity as the finest hangman in the land. With his earnings from these jobs, he and his wife decide to open a pub(!), which does a booming business, thanks in part to his notoriety.
But the job begins to take a terrible toll. Even after he tells his wife about his second profession, she doesn’t want to hear about it. Nobody really wants to hear about it. When protestors start demonstrating against capital punishment, Pierrepoint finds himself the target of their hate. Doubts begin to creep in to destroy his previously unshakable faith in what he does. By the mid-1950s, Albert Pierrepoint resigns his position (ostensibly over unpaid fees) and completely reverses his own position on capital punishment, though he initially keeps his opinions to himself. In his 1974 autobiography, however, he finally confesses that the whole experience had left a bitter aftertaste for him and that he felt that capital punishment had 'achieved nothing but revenge.'
The film loosely follows Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall), from the time he is first trained for the job and accepted onto the list of the country's official hangmen in 1932 until his resignation in 1956.
Though this is a fairly standard biopic and 'issue film,' the performances of Juliet Stevenson and especially Timothy Spall are remarkable. Pierrepoint’s determination to remain detached takes a terrible toll on his life and is bound to fail eventually. The obvious conclusion is that killing corrodes our humanity, whether the killer is a murderer or an executioner on the state’s payroll.
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Two very different images vie for position in my non-Londoner brain.
The negative - the closing scene of the movie "10, Rillington Place" in which at this spot Christie is finally apprehended in a London Fog.
The positive (if sad) - the Fairground Attraction song of lost innocence/love/opportunity "Moon on the Rain" in which Eddi Reader sings of the lights on the Embankment "like jewels on chains"
I'm not crazy about London and what it represents in many respects, but I could learn to love this spot - it has something dramatic. mystical, and romantic about it
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