Meander Mile: #4 Piccadilly Circus

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Piccadilly Circus, seen from Coventry Street

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 and murder cases you're already familiar with and others as yet untold. This week's episode focuses on Piccadilly Circus.

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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 – Boots / Barclays - 48 Piccadilly Circus, junction of Glass house Street
• 2 - GAP / American Werewolf in London
• 3 – Shaftesbury Avenue / old Café Monico
• 4 – 39-45 Shaftesbury Avenue, Avalon nightclub (Hassan Mohammed Omer Isman)
• 5 – 42 Rupert Street, unsolved murder of Black Rita
• 6 - Coventry Street / The Vampire
• 7 – Café de Paris / bombing
• 8 – Criterion Theatre / Greta Hayward / Blackout Ripper
• 9 – Shaftesbury Memorial / Eros
• 10 – Lillywhites / unsolved murder of Eliza Sylvia Goodman
• 11 – Itsu, 167 Piccadilly, Alexander Litvinenko
• 12 – Piccadilly Circus west / meeting point
• 13 – Grade 2 Listed Police Call Box
• 14 – Regents Palace Hotel, double suicides
  

Here's a little video showing you Piccadilly Circus and the circuit we will be taking around it. This video is a link to youtube, so it won't eat up your data.

Below is also a link to the starting position via GoogleMaps, so you can follow my journey online.

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 tor 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", and featuring 12 murderers, including 3 serial killers, across 15 locations, totaling 50 deaths, over just a one mile walk