My Magdala Tavern YouTube vlog is now live!
Link:-
The
Magdala Tavern is infamous as the site where nightclub manageress
Ruth Ellis- the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain- shot her
faithless lover, racing driver David Blakely, dead.
This case is very important from a historical point of view. Aside from being the last female to be hanged, Ruth Ellis' case was also instrumental in bringing about two significant legal changes. Two years later, in 1957, diminished responsibility was added into British law as a defence for murder and hers was one of a handful of cases instrumental in pushing forward the campaign for the abolition of capital punishment. From 1965 a person could no longer be hanged in Britain for committing murder. The Ruth Ellis story is well-documented: in dramatisations such as A Cruel Love and Dance With A Stranger, but also in factual programmes.
Come and take a walk in my shoes and I'll take you to where the shooting scene was filmed in Dance With A Stranger- and it's not the Magdala! Then we will visit the Magdala Tavern, which sits near Hampstead Heath Overground station, and which is very much still an operating pub. I'll take a look at the actual bullet holes left over from the crime, which are embedded in the outside wall- but are they really bullet holes?
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As you know, I will always be a writer before anything else, and I have a selection of Hampstead vlogs for you to read:-
General Hampstead blog (this one features the Magdala):-
Golders Hill Park:-
https://elainerockett.blogspot.com/2024/08/miss-elaineous-visits-golders-hill-park.html
https://elainerockett.blogspot.com/2024/08/miss-elaineous-visits-golders-hill-park.html
The Hill Garden and Pergola:-
Kenwood House:-
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