Plaque

(lost) Ruth Ellis bullet holes - 2nd plaque

Inscription

In 1954 Ruth Ellis shot David Blakely producing these bullet holes. Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Site: Ruth Ellis bullet holes - lost plaques (2 memorials)

NW3, South Hill Park, Magdala pub

The Islington Tribune tells the story of the landlady in the early 1990s, Mary Watson, drilling the holes and erecting the plaque to give tourists something to look at. The sightseers were brought by the operators of the ‘Murder Coach’ tours, who had added The Magdala to their tours which already included the Kray brothers’ Blind Beggar pub and the Jack the Ripper alleys of the East End. The first plaque had two errors: the name of the victim and the date of the murder. The date error remained on the second plaque.

The earliest available Google street view, 2008, does not show the sign.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ruth Ellis bullet holes - 2nd plaque

Subjects commemorated i

David Blakely

David Blakely was a racing driver engaged to one woman and also in a relation...

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Ruth Ellis

Ruth Ellis, née Neilson, was a British nightclub hostess who was convicted of...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Ruth Ellis bullet holes - 2nd plaque

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Ruth Ellis bullet holes - 1st plaque

Ruth Ellis bullet holes - 1st plaque

The naming error on the plaque is interesting. Derek Bentley (1933-53) was a ...

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