#244 - No Fixed Abode (Fulham, London, UK)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
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#244 - No Fixed Abode. On Thursday 25th of October 1934, at the Westminster Institute on Fulham Road, Jim Harvey smashed in the skull of his friend George Hamblin, nine times with a hammer. But what drove a lonely man to murder his only friend?
- Date: Thursday 25th of October 1934 at roughly 5:10pm
- Location: The Westminster Institute, 367 Fulham Road, London, England, SW10
- Victim: 1 (Allen George Hamblin)
- Culprit: 1 (George Frederick Harvey / Charles Malcolm Lake Schonberg)
- Method: assault and bludgeoning with a hammer
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Murder Mile. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, I'm standing on Fulham Road in Chelsea, S.W. 10. |
| 0:18.0 | A few streets south of the beating of Gunterpidola, |
| 0:23.7 | a short walk west of the jealousy of Jane Andrews, |
| 0:28.0 | barely a quick trip from the bubbling drum of John George Haig, |
| 0:32.4 | and a short trot east of the lies of Ronald True, |
| 0:40.3 | coming soon to Murdimar. A 369 Fulham Road, on the site of the St George's Workhouse stands Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. |
| 0:51.3 | A small but vital facility with a world-renowned Burns Unit at Children's Hospital. |
| 0:58.0 | And if you're a man who on a Friday night slipped on a cucumber while making a salad in the nude, |
| 1:06.0 | they'll sort that too. In 1876, before the NHS was founded, as a middle ground between the workhouse and the infirmary, |
| 1:19.6 | the Westminster Institute was built to provide beds, meals and free healthcare for 13,000 |
| 1:26.6 | sick and impoverished men who had no homes, no work and no |
| 1:30.3 | families, in return for an honest day's work. |
| 1:36.3 | Like a prison, the inmates did what they could to relieve the boredom, |
| 1:41.3 | by sneaking in contraband, by pinching treats from the mess hall, |
| 1:46.0 | by blagging an extra cup of tea when the warders weren't watching, |
| 1:50.0 | and through George Hamblin the Institute's secret bookie, |
| 1:55.0 | you could bet on a horse for a penny. |
| 1:59.0 | As just a little bit of fun for the regulars who like to have a flutter, on a horse for a penny. |
| 2:01.0 | As just a little bit of fun for the regulars who liked to have a flutter, at best he made |
| 2:06.2 | a small profit off the four pounds a day he placed on the day's races. |
| 2:11.5 | And although he barely made enough to have a fun night out with a lady, the little |
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