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Fairyland was an amusement arcade and shooting gallery located at 92 Tottenham Court Road in London, between 1909 and 1921. This podcast is the true story of how Fairyland was connected to three historical events: an assassination seen as one of the first acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement, a plan to kill the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland by Suffragettes, and a murder that changed criminal case law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Court_Road#Early_hi ...
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We explain what happened to the Fairyland amusement arcade and shooting gallery after the trial of Donald Lesbini, and the formal closing of Stanton Morley and Co Ltd. in 1923. Contact: email: ellis@cherryleaf.com (c) Ellis Pratt 2019
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In this episode, we look at the events on the 12th August, 1914, at the Fairyland amusement arcade, 92 Tottenham Court Road, London. It was a murder that changed British, Australian and Canadian criminal case law. Contact: email: ellis@cherryleaf.com (c) Ellis Pratt 2019 ...
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2. Fairyland, Madan Lal Dhingra and the assassination of Curzon Wyllie
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At 5.30pm on the 1st July 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra visited the Fairyland shooting gallery to practise his shooting. At around 10.30pm, when he was at the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, he assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the head of the secret police in India. The assassination is cited as one of the first acts of revolution in …
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3. Fairyland and the Suffragettes
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In September 1909, the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch reported to the Home Secretary that two Suffragettes were going to Fairyland in Tottenham Court Road to practice with their pistols. The reason - they planned to assassinate Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland. We investigate the police reports to the Home Secretar…
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1. Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Fairyland opens
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Fairyland has a minor place in history, because it was connected to an assassination, an aborted assassination of the Prime Minister, and a murder. This episode begins the story of Fairyland, an amusement arcade and shooting gallery that was located at 92 Tottenham Court Road in London, between 1909-1921. It describes the street at that time, what …
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