Never Gonna Give You Up Filming Location
This was a fun location to visit. Jerri and I made a couple goofy videos and had a blast!
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Moorgate Train Disaster Memorial
The Moorgate train disaster happened on February 28, 1975, when a Northern City Line train failed to stop at Moorgate station in London. Instead of slowing into the terminal platform, the train carried on into the dead-end tunnel and hit the wall beyond the platform. Forty-three people died, including the driver, and 74 people were…
Bram Stoker Lived Here
Bram Stoker’s London house is at 18 St Leonard’s Terrace in Chelsea, where a blue plaque marks him as the author of Dracula. It is a quiet-looking terraced home, the kind of place you could walk past without giving it much thought, but it has a strong literary connection. Stoker lived here while he was…
Bob Marley’s Chelsea House
42 Oakley Street in Chelsea is one of the London addresses most closely tied to Bob Marley. After the 1976 attempt on his life in Jamaica, Marley came to London and lived here with The Wailers in 1977. It was during this period that they finished work on Exodus, the album that gave the world…
Flat that Diana lived in.
Before she became Princess Diana, she lived at Flat 60, Coleherne Court on Old Brompton Road in London. From 1979 to 1981, this was her home. Not a palace. Not some grand royal residence. Just a flat she shared with friends while working and living a pretty normal young life. That changed fast. As her…
House where Freddie Mercury lived and died.
Freddie Mercury died at Garden Lodge, his longtime home in Kensington, London, on November 24, 1991, one day after publicly confirming that he had AIDS. The house was a private refuge for him, filled with art, antiques, and the things he loved, and it became closely tied to his final years. After his death, fans…
Dennis Nilsen and 195 Melrose Ave.
Some streets carry history quietly. 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, north-west London, looks like the kind of address most people would pass without thinking twice. But in true crime history, it is remembered as one of the two London homes linked to Dennis Nilsen, the Scottish serial killer who later became known as the Muswell…
Grenfell Tower Fire: A Tragedy That Changed Building Safety
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise apartment building in London. What started as a small kitchen fire quickly turned into something far worse. The fire began in a fourth-floor flat after a fridge-freezer malfunctioned. Normally, a fire like this might stay contained. But this one…
John Reginald Christie and the Crimes of 10 Rillington Place
Few addresses in British criminal history carry the same dark reputation as 10 Rillington Place in London. The quiet row house in Notting Hill became the scene of one of the most disturbing serial murder cases in the United Kingdom. The man responsible was John Reginald Christie, a seemingly mild neighbor who hid a horrifying secret behind the…
Reginald and Jonathan Carr: The Wichita Massacre That Shook A Community
In the closing days of 2000, the city of Wichita, Kansas, was rocked by a brutal crime spree that would forever scar the community. At the center of this carnage were two brothers—Reginald and Jonathan Carr—whose actions during a week-long rampage came to be known as the Wichita Massacre. Their crimes were so violent and…
Shame at the Diamond: The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
The 1919 World Series was a highly significant event in the history of Major League Baseball. It featured a championship matchup between the American League (AL) champion Chicago White Sox and the National League (NL) champion Cincinnati Reds. Regrettably, this particular World Series became infamous due to the subsequent revelation of the “Black Sox Scandal,”…