Meander Mile: #3 Chinatown

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Gerrard Street in Chinatown, W1

Every-so-often I will be rolling out a new style of episode called Meander Mile, where I take you on a guided walk through a single street in London; I'll show you streets you're already familiar with and some you aren't, pointing out locations you'll recognise from the podcast, and introducing you to new true-crime tales, as yet untold.

This week's episode focuses on Gerrard Street, W1 (in the heart of Chinatown). You can listen to the episode via the link below, or if you fancy viewing the locations via photos, or via GoogleMaps there's a link to this below. 

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THE LOCATIONS
For your enjoyment, I've posted photos of the locations discussed in this episode. They're all in chronological order. These photos were taken by myself (copyright Murder Mile).

• 1 - O’Neill’s pub, 37 Wardour Street (Harry “Scarface” Distleman)
• 2 – Wong Kei
• 3 – Dansey Place (unknown victim)
• 4 – 13-17 Wardour Street (David Knight)
• 5 – 23 Gerrard Street (Leisure Amusements)
• 6 – 27 Gerrard Street (offices of gangster Billy Hill)
• 7 – 16 Gerrard Street (the Hide-A-Way club, Kray Twins)
• 8 – 15 Gerrard Street / Lotus Garden (Vien Xuan Cao)
• 9 – 32 Gerrard Street / BrB Bar (unidentified victim)
• 10 – 39 Gerrard Street / Leong’s Legend (fire bombing)
• 11 – 42-44 Gerrard Street / New Loon Fung’s restaurant (Triad violence)
• 12 – 8 Gerrard Street / Haozhan (illegal gambling club)
• 13 – Shaftesbury Avenue Fire Station
• 14 – 48 Gerrard Street / New China Restaurant (fire)
  

To go with this episode, here's a little location video of me showing you the start point on Gerrard Street, and below is a link via GoogleMaps.

They're all links so it won't eat up your mobile phone data.

Credits: Murder Mile was researched, written and recorded by Michael J Buchanan-Dunne, with the music written and performed by Erik Stein & Jon Boux of Cult With No Name. ​​

The music featured in this episode include:

• Man in a Bag by Cult With No Name (opening and interstitials)
• Winsome Lose Some by Cult With No Name (credits)

Michael J Buchanan-Dunne is a writer, crime historian, podcaster and tour-guide who runs Murder Mile Walks, a guided tour of Soho’s most notorious murder cases, hailed as “one of the top ten curious, quirky, unusual and different things to do in London”, nominated "one of the best true-crime  podcasts at the British Podcast Awards 2018", one of The Telegraph's top five true-crime podcasts and featuring 12 murderers, including 3 serial killers, across 15 locations, totaling 50 deaths, over just a one mile walk