#163 - The Unloved (Soho & Camden, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On the 14th March 1922, in a small ground-floor lodging at the back of 168 Hampstead Road, a baby girl was born. Conceived in secret by a young couple - 21-year-old Harry Gimber and 23-year-old Alice Crabbe - they hadn;t been able to abort it, the couldn't afford to keep, so having ran out of options, they decided to "abandon it".
One week later, the body of a new born baby was found in Enfield, but with no way to identify Harry & Alice as the parents, its disposal should have remained a secret. So, what went wrong?
- Date: Tuesday 14th March 1922 at roughly 12pm (birth and death)
- Location: First-floor, back-room at 168 Hampstead Road, London, UK, NW1
- Victims: 1 (unnamed baby)
- Culprits: 1 (Harry William Gimber & Alice Crabb)
- Keywords: infanticide, child murder, strangling, baby,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murdemile. |
| 0:16.2 | Today I'm standing at 168 Hamstered Road, N-W-1. |
| 0:22.8 | A few streets east and several doors south of Edith Humphries and Maple Church, the first |
| 0:29.0 | two possible murders by the Blackhead River, as well as a deadly feud at Regent's Park |
| 0:35.1 | Zoo, which saw a keeper bludgeon to death, coming soon to Murdemile. |
| 0:45.6 | The Hamstered Road is a busy thoroughfare heading for Mordington Crescent to Warren Street. |
| 0:52.6 | As you pass a set of flats and a brown bridge over the train line into nearby London |
| 0:57.3 | Houston, on this site, once at a row of three-storey Georgian tevis houses which have long |
| 1:04.3 | since been demolished, crammed full of doses as Crossrail decimates the city. |
| 1:12.7 | It's no surprise that they've gone over budget as you never see a construction worker |
| 1:18.8 | actually work. |
| 1:21.4 | You might spy one, wetting a bit of road with a limp hose or ten men supervising as |
| 1:27.2 | one man digs, but most of the time, all they do is eat. |
| 1:35.3 | Go to any cafe and you'll be blinded by lines of high vis-vests, all chuntering. |
| 1:48.3 | Sadly, as a vital part of any city, although progress erases the past, sometimes that's |
| 1:56.0 | not a bad thing. |
| 1:59.2 | Back in 1922, on this site stood a three-storey terrace at one six-eight Hamstered Road. |
| 2:07.5 | As a lodging house for those with barely a few pennies to rub together, in a small backroom |
| 2:13.3 | on the first floor, lived a young couple, Harry Gimba and Alice Krabber. |
| 2:20.9 | Being too poor to marry and too selfish to think of anyone but themselves, owe into |
| 2:26.8 | the consequences of their carnal lust. |
| 2:29.8 | It was here that a baby was born in secret. |
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