Bank Holiday murders

[RedBundy13]

Yes! I do recall something like this as well!! Didn't she lure the man somewhere where he was then assaulted leaving him with a wound to his head? Causing him to stumble back to his boat, either late or missing it all together? And he told his superiors it was because he was injured after being attacked??
I've looked back tonight but cannot find the incident... But I do definitely remember something like this happening

Found it, yes it was Saddler that I was thinking of...

[RedBundy13]

Debs, Tom,
Wasn't there some court case that a man charged Polly Nicholas (as part of a group of women) with robbing him in a low bar? As I recall the story, he had gotten off a ship, gone to a bar and she stole from him, or cheated him, or something?

It would have been discussed 4-5-maybe 6 years ago?

Yes! I do recall something like this as well!! Didn't she lure the man somewhere where he was then assaulted leaving him with a wound to his head? Causing him to stumble back to his boat, either late or missing it all together? And he told his superiors it was because he was injured after being attacked??
I've looked back tonight but cannot find the incident... But I do definitely remember something like this happening

[RedBundy13]

Thanks Tom Wescott for your book! I've always thought similar and I believe that Emma Smith's murder if looked into further, could possibly lead to the identity of JTR. I'm so glad to have someone like yourself take a look at the WHOLE picture and not just bits and pieces!

[RedBundy13]

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[Rosella]

It was probably some poor vagrant that had settled down for the night in one of the vaults and objected to being disturbed. Apparently it became quite fashionable to go around Highgate cemetery in search of the Vampire. Having said that, in Victorian times there were stories of people seeing a tall man in black disappearing through one of the cemetery walls.

[Pcdunn]

And plenty of Mellow Yellow...

Speaking of the Seventies, I saw the fellow who started the Highgate Phantom scare on a TV show this past weekend. He's looking a bit worse for wear, like most of us Boomers are, but swears up and down he saw something in the graveyard that night...

[GUT]

Itchycoo Park, on the other hand, was apparently Valentines Park near Ilford. By some accounts, anyway, nobody really knows for sure. It was the sixties, maybe it was just a state of mind?

Had a lot of grass I think.

[Joshua Rogan]

Itchycoo Park, on the other hand, was apparently Valentines Park near Ilford. By some accounts, anyway, nobody really knows for sure. It was the sixties, maybe it was just a state of mind?

[Tom_Wescott]

Thanks, Dusty and Josh.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Joshua Rogan]

Itchy Park is the area coloured green on this map;

[drstrange169]

The park next to Christchurch.

[GUT]

That's what I was thinking of.

And Debs, that article has to be accurate since you're the one who found it. It has little choice.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. Which park was also known as 'Itchy Park'? I thought it was Trafalgar Square.

I thought it was Itchycoo Park

[Tom_Wescott]

Are you perhaps confusing Nichols with Coles, and the drama around Sadler?

That's what I was thinking of.

And Debs, that article has to be accurate since you're the one who found it. It has little choice.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. Which park was also known as 'Itchy Park'? I thought it was Trafalgar Square.

[Fisherman]

Debs, Tom,
Wasn't there some court case that a man charged Polly Nicholas (as part of a group of women) with robbing him in a low bar? As I recall the story, he had gotten off a ship, gone to a bar and she stole from him, or cheated him, or something?

It would have been discussed 4-5-maybe 6 years ago?

Are you perhaps confusing Nichols with Coles, and the drama around Sadler?

[Debra A]

Hi Curious, Tom.
I must admit I don't recall either incident.
She was arrested in Trafalgar Square with a group of other vagrant women and children who gathered their regularly to spend the night and get the free food handouts from charitable organisations and the only other incident I can recall is the one where she supposedly pocketed a table knife in some sort of institution and threatened a member of staff with it (going from memory) but I don't know how accurate that particular story was.