Tag Archives: Crime

Mind The Gap – Someone pushed me under a London Underground Train!

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

If not your worst nightmare, it’s probably one that ranks near the very top of the worst nightmare list but on Friday morning, I got pushed and fell down the gap between a London Underground tube train and the platform. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, News | Tagged Accidents, Crime, Death, Injury, Knighthood, London Underground, Mind The Gap, The Tube | 25 Comments

Station Squabble – A fist fight between two London mice!

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

You don’t have to go to far on my blog to find some of the tough and murky history of East London. Whatever else you have to look out for in the East-End, even I had presumed the mice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, Photography, Travel | Tagged Crime, Farringdon, London, London Underground, Mice, Natural History Museum, wildlife | Leave a comment

Modern day Grave Robbers who stole from my mothers grave

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

I wasn’t going to write anything today; I’ve had a chest infection which turned into bronchitis and then manifested itself into something like pneumonia for the last 10-12 weeks. I have been out of the house only a handful of … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Religion and Faith | Tagged All Saints Church, Crime, Death, Flowers, Leavesden, Mourning, sadness, Stealing, Theft, Thieves, Watford | 11 Comments

James Bulger 25 years on – the crime that shocked the nation.

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Stephen Liddell

25 years ago this week, a crime shook Britain and the city of Liverpool in particular with such revulsion that no-one who was alive at the time will ever forget. It was a crime where society sank to a new … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, News, Opinion | Tagged Bootle, Crime, James Bulger, Jon Venables, Liverpool, Murder, Robert Thompson | 9 Comments

Shad Thames and Jacobs Island – The Venice of Drains

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Stephen Liddell

This my second post resulting from my scouting out a new tour I have been wanting to start offering to my lovely tourists. As well as the regular tourist hotspots, I really enjoy taking people to the lesser visited parts … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Bermondsey, Charles Dickens, Crime, Jacobs island, Long reads, River Neckinger, Rotherhithe, Slums | 18 Comments

101 Most Horrible Tortures In History (my new book!)

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Stephen Liddell

Today is a big day for me, I’m launching my new book on Kindle and Paperback formats! 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History takes a wry look at history, torture and bizarre punishments of times past and just a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in history, writing | Tagged 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History, books, Crime, Death, Ebook, history, Horror, ibooks, Kindle, Life, New book launch, Torture | 19 Comments

Dick Turpin Highwayman – Stand and Deliver

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

For millennia, travelling by land across the British Isles was a dangerous and slow business. Most people when they could travelled by boat on rivers and along the sea-coast and later by canals. Travelling by land was a slow and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Britannia, history, Popular Culture | Tagged Adam Ant, Crime, Dick Turpin, Epping Forest, Highwaymen, history, Life, London, Murders, Muskets, UK, Whitechapel, York | 4 Comments

Jack The Ripper Breakthrough: Identified as Aaron Kosminski

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Stephen Liddell

It seems slightly unreal to be updating a historical blog post I wrote just a week ago on Jack The Ripper. Jack being the legendary serial killer in Victorian London for whom police identified over 100 suspects. However, several British … Continue reading →