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.
