OMG!! This is RIGHT next to my school!!
10 Rillington place - it was literally 5 minutes away from my school. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!
The police will help us, our taxes pay their salaries. We die, they gotta take a pay cut.
omg that is so scary!
isnt it called something different now, not Rillington Place anymore?
It's been bulldozed now, to build a big fly over which you can see from my school window.
The police will help us, our taxes pay their salaries. We die, they gotta take a pay cut.
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Yea I know *shudders*
"The police will help us,our taxes pay their salaries. We die, they gotta take a pay cut"
The location is now called Bartle Street. There is a gap in the houses halfway down the road where 10 Rillington Place used to stand.
shareNo it didn't stand in the gap. That's just to placate the people who live there, the exact location would be at the back of the square (St. Andrew's Square). The houses that are there now are in the centre of the street, as Rillington Place had houses on the north side also. (Which it doesn't now).
shareInteresting. I lived near Ladbroke Grove in the Eighties and went out one day to "find" 10 Rillington Place. I walked down Bartle Road (from St Marks Road) and paced out the distance (very roughly). I found myself at that "gap" in the houses (on the left) and I assumed that's where 10 must have stood.
From some pix I have been looking at, the gap now seems much more overgrown than then. It was much tidier then and the huge tree in the middle was only about 8 foot high. The gap definitely had a slight ring of "memorial" to it, and it stuck me as "deliberately left empty" as soon as I saw it.
The mistake I had made was, of course, assuming Bartle Road was directly on top of the old Rillington Place. But I do wonder whether the site developer of that area (in the 70s) also made this mistake when planning that "gap". It's also odd that they *did* build on the proper site (the bulk of the old house would have been under (the back of) nos 28 & 29 St Andrews Square (which is off of Bartle Road). It must be fairly ghastly for the inhabitant of #28 to know they are living on top of this place....
No. They changed it to Ruston Close. Ruston Mews is (and was then) nearby.
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