Eight Bells, Fulham
The Eight Bellsis a pub inFulham High Street,close to the northern end ofPutney Bridge.
The Eight Bells was the site of an early dog show, with a toy spaniel show in 1851.[1]
In 1886, the original woodenFulham Bridgewas replaced byPutney Bridgeto the west, and the Eight Bells received compensation for the loss of trade, as that end of Fulham High Street now became a quiet cul-de-sac.[2]
From 1886 to 1888,Fulham Football Clubused the pub as a changing room, as they played at the nearby Ranelagh House until that site was used for housing.[3][4]
In 1986,Kenneth Erskine,the Hammersmith-bornserial killerknown as theStockwell Strangler,raped and strangled his final victim, Florence Tisdall, an 83-year-old widow around the corner in Ranelagh Gardens Mansions, but any cries for help would have been drowned out by a disco at the Eight Bells to celebrate the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Hannah Velten (15 August 2013).Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City.Reaktion Books. p. 202.ISBN978-1-78023-217-1.Retrieved19 February2016.
- ^John Richardson (2000).The Annals of London: A Year-by-year Record of a Thousand Years of History.University of California Press. p.308.ISBN978-0-520-22795-8.Retrieved19 February2016.
- ^Suggs (17 September 2009).Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London.Headline. p. 192.ISBN978-0-7553-1927-5.Retrieved19 February2016.
- ^Alex White (31 August 2012).The Fulham FC Miscellany.History Press. p. 17.ISBN978-0-7524-9057-1.Retrieved19 February2016.
- ^Kate Kray (31 July 2007).The World's Twenty Worst Crimes - True Stories of 10 Killers and Their 3000 Victims.John Blake Publishing. p. 74.ISBN978-1-78418-436-0.Retrieved19 February2016.
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