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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
24th February 1992 Comedian Benny Hill suffers his first heart attack, two months before his death.
24th February 1981 Prince Charles and Princess Diana get engaged.
24th February 1948 Minder and New Tricks actor Dennis Waterman was born in Clapham, London.
24th February 1939 Born today: George Bain, principal (London Business School)
24th February 1906 Kingsway Tramway opened from Angel, Islington to Aldwych.
24th February 1711 Handel's opera Rinaldo premieres at the Queen's Theatre.
The Black Dog of Newgate
The black dog of newgate is a horrid ghost story!
Location: Amen Court, Westminster, London
Description: Amen Court contains the late seventeenth century houses of canons from the nearby St Paul's cathedral. It's a short distance from Paternoster Row, where monks finished their Pater Noster (a Christian prayer) on Corpus Christi Day before walking in procession to St. Paul's Cathedral. When they reached the corner of the Row they said 'Amen'.
The ivy-covered wall at the end of Amen Court has been in place since the court and the former prison were in existence. This section of the wall is believed to be haunted by a particularly unpleasant manifestation known for centuries as the 'Black Dog of Newgate'.
The Black Dog is said to have been witnessed gliding up and down the streets and crawling along the top of the wall immediately before an execution was to take place.
Apparently one prisoner called Luke Hutton wrote down his opinions about the existence of the Black Dog. It is thought that he believed it to be the ghost of a former prisoner called Schoiler, who had been eaten by the other starving prisoners. The act of cannibalism caused the prisoners to imagine that they had seen Schoiler at night, in the form of a black dog, patrolling the prison, his jaws open in preparation for his revenge.
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