#208 - Rags and Bones - Part One (Westbourne Grove, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
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Summary
This is Part One of Two of Rags & Bones.
On the morning of Tuesday 11th March 1969, a 52-year-old prostitute known as ‘Scotch Maggie’ went missing from her home at 3 Oxford Gardens near Notting Hill. Two days later, her semi-clad body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned house at 140 Kensal Road. But who had killer her and why?
- Date: Tuesday 11th March 1969
- Location: 140 Kensal Road, W10 (now demolished)
- Victim: 1 (Margaret Farlow Cameron, 'Scotch Maggie')
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, I'm standing on Kensal Road in Westbourne Grove, W-10. |
| 0:23.6 | Three streets north of the unsolved killing of Emmy Werner. |
| 0:27.6 | One road east of the drowning of Lena Cunningham. |
| 0:31.6 | Two streets west of the sad end to Minnie Barry. |
| 0:35.6 | And a short walk from West London's Lady Killer, coming soon |
| 0:42.6 | to Murdemar. |
| 0:44.7 | In the shadow of Trellick Town, on the bank of the Grand Union Canal sits meanwhile gardens. |
| 0:57.1 | A thin strip of green in a grey man-made jungle. |
| 1:02.3 | Where drunks get pickled in a sea of strong Polish lagers. |
| 1:07.0 | A line of baggypans skaters take turns to fail to do a simple trick. |
| 1:13.2 | Picnics are ruined as the Scotch eggs get coated in a choking smoke as the belching trucks roll by. |
| 1:21.4 | And gangs in grey mother care track suits strut about like Mummy forgot to change their nappies. |
| 1:32.3 | As part of the 1960s slum clearance, before Trellick Tower was built, a series of canal-side |
| 1:40.3 | terraces were scheduled to be demolished, making way for meanwhile gardens. By |
| 1:48.1 | 1969, 140-Censal Road was just another Victorian three-story terrace, with smashed windows, |
| 1:58.1 | no door and a leaking roof. |
| 2:05.6 | Being weeks away from its destruction, |
| 2:09.6 | it was in the back room of this damp derelict hole, |
| 2:16.6 | that the body of a 53-year-old prostitute, known as Scotch Maggie, was found. As an outcast of civilised society, this forgotten woman had been used up, spat out, |
| 2:27.3 | and dumped alongside a mess of abandoned rubbish. |
| 2:33.3 | Maggie's death was the epitome of tragic. |
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