#18 - Norah Upchurch and her Lonely Death in the Empty Shop - Part 1 (Bloomsbury, London, W1)

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On Friday 2nd October 1931, West End prostitute Norah Upchurch was found strangled inside a locked empty shop in Shaftesbury Avenue; with no sign of a break-in, no-one knows how she got in or how her killer got out. 87 years since her murder, her killer has never been caught. Or was he?

Date: Tuesday 29th October 1931
Location: 177 Shaftesbury Avenue (now demolished), Bloomsbury, London, W1)
Victims: 1 (Annie Louise Norah Upchurch)
Culprit: Frederick Herbert Charles Field

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0:00.0	Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast and audio-guided walk, featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within one square mile of the West End.
0:24.5	Today's episode is about Nora Upchurch.
0:29.3	A kind, caring, trustworthy and well-loved West End prostitute,
0:34.8	whose unsolved murder shocked the city streets. and yet, by carefully re-examining
0:41.3	the original evidence, it's clear that, all the while, Nora's killer was hiding in plain sight.
0:51.3	Murder Mile contains graphic descriptions of death which may offend, as well as realistic sounds,
0:58.4	so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there.
1:06.0	My name is Michael. I am your tour guide. This is Murder Mile. Episode 18, Nora Upchurch and her lonely death in the empty shop.
1:25.6	Today I'm standing on Shasbury Avenue, WC2.
1:33.2	Not the nice bit of Shasbury Avenue, near Piccadilly Circus, by Soho, Chinatown, and most of the Western theatres,
1:41.6	but by the pug-ugly, nasty bit, near the arse end of Coven
1:46.2	Garden, an angry inner-city highway, known as the A-401, which runs thick with the choking
1:54.1	fumes of trucks, the snarling engines of buses, the honking horns of cars, and the belching exhausts of black cabs, whose swirling
2:04.6	fair meters move faster than their wheels ever do. And surrounded by bland office space,
2:11.7	gloomy Gothic buildings, a chef's shop, a builder's merchants, and an infamous sci-fi toy shop for fat middle-aged twats,
2:20.9	who were desperate to either look like they're massively nerdy, mentally defective, or a predatory paedophile.
2:28.5	This is the part of Shasbury Avenue, where you would only end up if you were lost, bored, desperate or depressed.
2:37.0	Having been blasted to Smitherines by a Nazi bombing raid on the 11th of May,
2:44.0	1941 at 347 a.m. The original buildings in and around 173 to 177 Shasbury Avenue were later demolished, rebuilt, and oddly renumbered.
2:59.8	Starting from the left with 151, which then jumps to 177, only to double back on itself at 175, leaps back to 167 and 169, double
3:13.0	backs on itself again by becoming 184, and finishing on the far right of these buildings
3:19.3	with number 179. With 177 and 179, now being over 300 feet apart, even though back in 1931 they were side by side.
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