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  • peacock

    peacock

    20 x 20 cm, acrylic on canvas

  • K is for Killing

    K is for Killing

    What happened exactly on the night of the killing? I put together the story through newspaper reports because the court records are closed till 2060.

  • I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    Len’s first wife, Irene, married him during his war service. But she met someone else and they divorced when he returned.

  • G is for Germany

    G is for Germany

    Germany was still occupied when I came to West Berlin, twenty-five years after Len went back to England and killed Libeth. But did he go back with Dinah?

  • F is for Femicide

    F is for Femicide

    Was the killing of Lisbeth femicide? The media gave the impression that Len was a devoted father who acted under provocation.

  • Maria Joy, 1843-1894

    Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…

  • The Pain Clinic

    It was snowing, they were late. The cropped, blonde nurse glared at her as her husband fled, keen to escape the clutches of the clinic which radiated an air of military strictness. This was the Pain Clinic. Where everyone is in pain, except – maybe the staff. She knew better than to explain to the…

  • Remembering Nellie

    Today I am honouring my great-grandmother Ellen (Nellie) Sinclair, born 1875, died 1968. Nellie was born in West Ham, Essex, the fourth child, when her parents were both 28. Her father was an engine fitter and died when she was five. She became a nurse at the District Homeopathic Hospital in Holborn. On 30 October…

  • Lost Place: Beelitz Sanatorium

    7 hours one rainy day I spent trudging around the old and crumbling buildings of the Beelitz sanatorium. »Here you can see more photos of this lost place

  • arena

    arena

    Arena complex and Spree in Berlin