Fun fact
When police were searching the house they failed to spot a human thigh bone propping up a bird table in the garden.
Until now, we at El Reg have assumed that Google's Street View spymobiles are as fearless as they are all-seeing, but it appears this may not be entirely true. We direct readers to strange and somewhat spooky goings-on at 10 Rillington Place - the infamous west London house where between 1943 and 1953 John Reginald Halliday …
I can report that the corner of Cherry and Washington in San Francisco, site of the Zodiac Killer's best-documented murder, is fully accessible to the Streetview tourist at http://bit.ly/aBkNey as is the former site of Fred West's House Of Horrors, 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, at http://bit.ly/9NgxIe
Wonder what the odds were of one of the workers being another casualty of that street.
Kinda good that they flattened the place though, the number of souvenir hunters etc it would attract would be pretty grim. I know Fred & Rose's pad was flattened too (probably in order to make certain they have found everyone) , are there any mass murderers homes left standing?
Looks like its now a 7th day adventist church now and the google-mobile stops right outside.
Clearly our Google overlords find Gloucester serial killers less scary than the London ones!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cromwell+street,+gloucester&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cromwell+St,+Gloucester+GL1+1RE,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.861967,-2.243271&spn=0.000505,0.001637&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.86189,-2.243334&panoid=4qTvBoAQYREcHMB5TjIOgw&cbp=12,294.1,,0,16.27
Note address says number 28, but just to the right is number 27 on the "odds" side of the road.
I think you need to take 2 steps left...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cromwell+street,+gloucester&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cromwell+St,+Gloucester+GL1+1RE,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.861711,-2.24348&panoid=WdKYJDkGlJG-KqnvGd2VsA&cbp=12,339.1,,0,16.27&ll=51.8618,-2.243408&spn=0.000541,0.00142&z=20
famously, the house was demolished once the forensic examination had finished and it was felt inappropriate to rebuild, so the site was turned into a pathway with a small public garden dedicated to the victims. You can see this from Streetview, where the bollards are next to the church
Loved that film clip. Oh for the days when a flat cap afforded protection from flying masonry. I suppose builders in caps have gone the same way as those red and white-striped tents you used to see at road works, where you would probably find the workers drinking tea.
And how soul-destroying must it have been for that reporter that he was still working on the newsreels in 1970, when all his more savvy journo friends had gone over to the new-fangled tele-vision.