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ON THIS DAY IN LONDON
22nd June 1944 Born today: Peter Asher, London, singer (Peter and Gordon-World Without Love)
22nd June 1922 Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
22nd June 1911 The Coronation of George V in Westminster Abbey.
22nd June 1887 Born today: Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog
22nd June 1749 Actor David Garrick married Eva Marie Veigel, a German dancer in opera choruses.
Top Crime-related places to visit in London.
Crime is one of the most intriguing and captivating themes in modern life, and London's history is full of real life escapades, robberies, murders and other nefarious criminal intent. Find out here exactly where they happened.
TOP 10 CRIME RELATED SIGHTS IN LONDON:
MORE CRIME SIGHTS:
11. Dr Crippen's Murder Home @ 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, London
12. The Tyburn Tree @ Bayswater Road, London
13. Dick Turpin's Cave @ Wellington Hill, High Beech, Epping Forest
14. The Kray twins were born here @ 64 Stean Street, Hoxton
15. The Walkie-Talkie Bank Job @ 185 Baker Street, London
16. Wilfred Brambles arrest was here @ 1 Shepherd's Bush Green, London
17. Tony Blair lived here @ 1 Richmond Crescent, Islington
18. 1909 Tottenham Outrage Robbery @ Tottenham High Road, London
19. Poirot's London Pad @ Charterhouse Square
20. The Lion Public House @ Tapp Street
21. Captain Kidd Hung Here @ Tilbury Point, Essex
22. The Clink @ Clink Street, London
23. Bow Street Magistrates Court @ Bow Street, Covent Garden, London
24. Buster Edwards died here @ Greet Street, Southwark
25. Cynthia Paynes House of Cyn @ 32 Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, London
26. The Ship and Blue Ball @ 13 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London
27. The Spaniard's Inn @ Spaniards Road, Hampstead
28. The London Cage, WW2 torture @ 7 Kensington Palace Gardens
29. Catherine Wheel Alley @ Bishopsgate, Broadgate
30. Spend a Night as a Kray @ 28 Bow Street
31. The Devil and the Lady @ Bleeding Heart Yard, off Greville Street
32. Foreign Anarchist Club @ 6 Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road
33. Balcombe Street Siege @ 21 Balcombe St, Marylebone, London
34. The Spaghetti House Siege @ 77 Knightsbridge, Knightsbridge
35. St Matthews Church @ Hereford Street, Whitechapel, London
36. The Carpenters Arms @ 73 Cheshire Street, Bethnal Green
37. The Star Tavern @ 6 Belgrave Mews West
38. The Markham Square Siege @ Markham Square, Chelsea
39. The Tower of London @ Tower of London
40. Adam Ant's Last Stand @ 22 Chalcot Road, London
41. Death of God's Banker @ Blackfriar's Bridge, London
42. The Aubergine Robbery Mystery @ 11 Park Walk, London
43. Sweeney Todd was born here @ 85 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London
44. World's 1st Drink Driving Arrest @ 165 Bond Street
45. John Christies House of Horror @ Near Barton Mews, Ladbroke Grove, London
46. The Battle of Waterloo 2 @ 81 Waterloo Road, Waterloo
47. The Calthorpe Arms @ 252 Grays Inn Road, City of London
48. King's Bench Debtors Prison @ Borough, Southwark, London
49. Sherlock's Speedy Sarnie @ 187 North Gower Street, Camden
50. Banksy's Poundland @ 12-14 High Road, Wood Green
51. John Wilkes' House Riots @ 35 Grosvenor Square
52. Albion House @ Albion House, New Oxford Street, London
53. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
54. The Clockwork Orange Underpass @ Trinity Road, Wandsworth, London
55. Green Jackets Bandstand bomb @ Bandstand, Regents Park
56. Created by an Almost-Bard @ 99 Buckingham Palace Road
57. Home to a Murderer @ 23 Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill
58. Captain Kidd Public House @ Off Wapping Rose Garden
59. The Oliver Twist @ 90 Church Road, Leyton, London
60. A barbers with a secret @ 156 Caledonian Road
61. Pickles World Cup Find @ St Valery, Beulah Hill, Norwood
62. Shot Prime Minister born here @ Audley Square, Westminster, London
63. Brockley Jack @ 410 Brockley Road, Brockley
64. Ted Terry dealt a Red Card @ Unit 4/Retail Park/Fleming Rd, Chafford Hundred
65. Lenin Memorial @ Bevin Court, Cruickshank Street, London
66. London Sculpture Comes Home @ 8 Hart Street, City of London
67. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
68. The Jowell's scandal home @ Raveley Street, Kentish Town
69. Spring Heeled Jacks 1st Victim @ 1 Tredegar Road, Tower Hamlets, London
70. The Grave Maurice @ 269 Whitechapel High Street, Whitechapel
71. Charlie Peace Arrested here @ 2 St John's Park, Blackheath
72. First Whitechapel Murder @ Wentworth Street, Whitechapel
73. Francis Bacon's Drug Bust @ 80 Narrow Street, Limehouse
74. The Goat @ 3a Kensington High Street
75. Did Jack the Ripper live here? @ 3 Sion Square, Whitechapel, London
76. A Park once filled with Vice @ Whetstone Park, Camden
77. The Highbury Barn @ Highbury Hill, London
78. The Blind Beggar @ 337 Whitechapel Road
79. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
80. Notting Hill Race Riots @ Latimer Road, London
81. The Magdala @ 2a South Hill Park
82. Once a Gun Safe House @ 257 Caledonian Road
83. A Pub on the Wagon @ 66 Bayswater Road
84. A Beatle gets Busted @ 34 Montagu Square, Marylebone
85. Prospect of Whitby @ 57 Wapping Wall
86. The Zizzi Penis Lop @ 73-75 The Strand, London
87. River Police Boatyard @ Nr Wapping Rose Garden
88. Pirates Execution Dock @ Off Wapping High Street, Wapping, London
89. House of Reeves @ 120 Church Street, Croydon
90. Ripper's First Victim @ Durward Street, Whitechapel
91. Robber Claude Duval Caught here @ The Marquis, 51-52 Chandos Place, Covent Garden
92. Metropolis @ Metropolis, 70 Chiswick High Road, London
93. Hanged Ruth Ellis lived here @ 44 Egerton Gardens, Ealing, London
94. Electric Avenue @ Electric Avenue, Brixton, London
95. The Crown of villainy @ 43 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London
96. The Cock Tavern Debauchery @ Bow Street, London
97. The Islington Gibbett @ Holloway Road, Islington
98. Gunpowder Plot was foiled here @ Under House of Lords, Westminster
99. Barry George's Flat @ 2b Crookham Road, Fulham, London
100. Home of Russian spy Kim Philby @ 18 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, London
101. The Start of the 2011 Riots @ Ferry Lane, Tottenham
102. Itsu: Litvinenko Poisoned @ 167 Piccadilly, London
103. The Green Man @ Putney Heath
104. Handbag Gang Strike Again @ New Bond Street
105. Oliver Cromwell's resting place @ 72 High Holborn, Holborn
106. Poor Lazarus Isaacs @ Tower Street, London
107. Lucan, Cubitt and some Plumbers @ 14 Lower Belgrave Street
108. The Hand and Shears @ 1 Middle Street
109. Botched Anti-Terror Police Raid @ 46 Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, London
110. A more level-headed Nephew @ 26 Priory Gardens, Highgate
mapping London's most interesting and unusual places and history
