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Why do werewolves like London?

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

Werewolves and London go together like… Well, they certainly get matched quite often, most famously in the 1981 movie, An American Werewolf in London. As the video below explains, with myself as your host, London has been a recurring venue for our lupine friends. What is a werewolf? What are the origins of the Werewolf…

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The London of the Frankenstein Chronicles

Tony McMahon7 years ago2 years ago06 mins

If you’ve watched the Netflix horror series The Frankenstein Chronicles you might be wondering what part of London were all those sordid and foul alley ways and run down houses? Well, it might surprise you to know that it was a district very close to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. I’m a latecomer to The…

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Taking a dead man’s head to the pub

Tony McMahon11 years ago2 years ago25 mins

Londoners do some very odd things but taking a dead man’s head to the pub is probably one of the more unusual. Read on! There’s a monument that many office workers pass under every day that they’d never realise has a ghoulish past. It’s an innocuous old gateway that leads from the front of St…

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  • Nude bathing in Victorian London
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