This was a great documentary (1996, I still have my copy somewhere). This tiny office has now long been demolished. I actually own a whole series of John George Haigh's original family photos, including the famous choirboy image that's trotted out in the magazines and documentaries. They include a lot of shots that haven't been seen before, mostly from his youth.
Fascinating, I wonder if it is haunted. Saw a doc about Haigh yesterday evening on YESTERDAY CHANNEL Mpart of Murder Map series. Whatt is in its place, is Dennis still around ?
I went looking for the site the other day as I was in Crawley. There was a largeish house built where I guess the workshop was. They could've put up a plaque.
How fascinating to see that old news footage! Interesting too to see how the outside of the building, windows and doors, have been remodeled since Haigh was using the place. What I think used to be a door on the upper story, originally used for hauling goods up from a cart, has been sensibly turned into a window. I don't doubt there are many stories--and myths--about Haigh. I hadn't heard the one about the neighbor's dying hedge before, but it wouldn't surprise me! However, I don't believe Haigh ever made "fertilizer bombs." He didn't actually "make" plastic fingernails either. It was his last victim, poor Mrs. Durand-Deacon, who hoped to make a marketable item out of that idea. Haigh seized on it and used it as an excuse to lure her down to Crawley on the pretext of discussing it further at his "factory." Instead, the luckless lady ended up in an acid bath like the others. And all for the sake of the jewelry and the famous black Persian lamb coat she was wearing: total value £161. Well, I guess £161 went a lot further in those days. They'd be worth over £5,000 today.
This was a great documentary (1996, I still have my copy somewhere). This tiny office has now long been demolished. I actually own a whole series of John George Haigh's original family photos, including the famous choirboy image that's trotted out in the magazines and documentaries. They include a lot of shots that haven't been seen before, mostly from his youth.
Fascinating, I wonder if it is haunted. Saw a doc about Haigh yesterday evening on YESTERDAY CHANNEL Mpart of Murder Map series. Whatt is in its place, is Dennis still around ?
@Pil Gor No, but they used some of them in the episode of Murder Maps I did.
@@IanP1963 Only just seen this post. I am the one being interviewed in the green stripey tie.
I went looking for the site the other day as I was in Crawley. There was a largeish house built where I guess the workshop was. They could've put up a plaque.
How fascinating to see that old news footage! Interesting too to see how the outside of the building, windows and doors, have been remodeled since Haigh was using the place. What I think used to be a door on the upper story, originally used for hauling goods up from a cart, has been sensibly turned into a window.
I don't doubt there are many stories--and myths--about Haigh. I hadn't heard the one about the neighbor's dying hedge before, but it wouldn't surprise me! However, I don't believe Haigh ever made "fertilizer bombs." He didn't actually "make" plastic fingernails either. It was his last victim, poor Mrs. Durand-Deacon, who hoped to make a marketable item out of that idea. Haigh seized on it and used it as an excuse to lure her down to Crawley on the pretext of discussing it further at his "factory." Instead, the luckless lady ended up in an acid bath like the others. And all for the sake of the jewelry and the famous black Persian lamb coat she was wearing: total value £161. Well, I guess £161 went a lot further in those days. They'd be worth over £5,000 today.
Clock Tower 3!! AHHHH XDD
Never heard any mention of Haigh cutting up the bodies.
funny how those pieces of lumber are in both old/new videos. suppose they've been there all that time? lmaooooooooo
It's crazy I live on that road and always wondered where it was and they knocked it down and a big house is there now crazy.
Would be incredibly awkward if the people who currently live in the house don’t know what it used to be.
The crazy thing is that Haigh was my great grandmothers cousin
Is he?
We must be distantly related then :)
TWO WERE WOMEN THREE WERE MEN, NOT JUST LADIES SIR !!!!
that old footage is so cool~~
Nothing to do with Haigh at all... He just had one arm... Lmao
Like I think we knew that. 🤣 Was he supposed to be the one that got away????🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That guy who had Haighs building should have his own series. Fantastic narrator.
He killed his first three victims in a basement at Gloucester Road in London. It's now part of a branch of McDonald's!
Currently watching this in the middle of an A-level Law lesson.
me too¬
Yes sadly they do, read the news.
ua-cam.com/video/fDCM3XVrA_8/v-deo.html - Pathe
No one does that
Don't you think it's haunted