Theatre Review: Whose Blood @ The Old Operating Theatre
Londonist reviews Whose Blood at The Old Operating Theatre, where bodies were in much demand in 1832, for many different reasons…
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London Hospital At Heart of Adult Entertainment
Image by Matt From London, with permission According to Portsmouth North MP Penny Mordaunt, an unused, fully equipped ward in an as yet to be confirmed London hospital was hired out as a film set for a naughty nudie sex movie a few years ago. …
Marchers Hoping To Save Whittington
Image / Gaz-zee-boh There’s a march this Saturday to protest against proposals to cut services at Archway’s Whittington hospital – not just A&E closures, as reported last year, but the maternity and ICU units are also threatened, and every one of the hospital’s seven ‘future …
Acts Of Mercy In Wellcome Library
Last year we witnessed the Fitzrovia Noir project which had rescued remnants and relics from the closed Middlesex Hospital in an artistic attempt to preserve the memories of its people and patients. Now Wellcome Library is also a party to the past of this historic …
The Saturday Strangeness
95. The Haunted Tree It is said that St James’s Hospital for Leprous Women, used the site, now known as Green Park, as a burial ground for victims. Little do we realise just how many bones have been eaten by the soil of the capital, …
Bad Case Of Norovirus
That’s what the North Middlesex has got. Yep, the Upper Edmonton hospital is packed to the gills with poor people spewing from both ends. Well, 13 people (unlucky for some) in a now closed ward. Norovirus is horribly contagious as well as plain horrible but …
The Saturday Strangeness
82. A Christmas Ghost Story: Curse of the Nurse! One night in 1943, the air raids had been particularly severe over London, and so the following day it wasn’t unusual for workman Charles Bide to be sent off to various crumbling and damaged abodes to …
Performing Medicine Season
The Performing Medicine season starts tomorrow, bringing together talent from The Clod Ensemble, Barts and The London School of Medicine and the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. There’s a programme of performances, conversations, workshops and a symposium looking at how the …
The Saturday Strangeness
66(6)! The Coventry Street Vampire It is a case obscure, hardly spoken of. Whilst the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street. In 1922 a giant …
Doctor, Doctor, There Are Maggots In My Slippers
We don’t want to put you off your lunch, but some of London’s public services need a serious clean up. Holding cells for detained immigrants have been branded “squalid” in Southwark with “pubic hair on mattress plinths and congealed blood and human waste on some …
The Saturday Strangeness
64. The Beast Beneath. Of all the things I have written about with regards to weird phenomena in London, what you are about to read is possibly one of the strangest and most significant tales ever. This story comes via two good friends and fellow …
