Sunday, May 12

Bloody Leamington Spa Walking Tour: The Posh Part

Dare you take this walk on the dark side of the streets, with true crime tales from Leamington's grim history on almost every corner?

By Adam Wood

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Sunday, May 12 · 7 - 8:30pm GMT+1

Location

The Fox and Vivian

32 Clarendon Avenue Royal Leamington Spa CV32 4RZ United Kingdom

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About this event

Hear of the wife of a renowned Leamington doctor who was poisoned by their servant, why a local man just returned from military service burned his mother to death, and what happened when Scotland Yard detectives visited Leamington to question a man who had confessed to the brutal murder of a soldier in what was a nationwide tragedy. And that’s not to mention the baby farm discovered on Park Street, where desperate young women took their infants to avoid local disgrace...

This walk is one and a half miles long, and starts outside the Fox & Vivian pub at 32 Clarendon Avenue. It lasts 90 minutes, and ends outside the Royal Pump Rooms.

Organized by

Adam Wood

Adam Wood is an author, speaker and walking tour guide specialising in historic true crime and policing.

He is the author of a number of books, and for more than twenty years was Executive Editor of Ripperologist magazine, the leading publication dedicated to the serious study of the Whitechapel murders by 'Jack the Ripper' and their place in social history. From 2017 to 2021 he was Editor of the Journal of the Police History Society. In 2023 Adam launched a new magazine, Crime Through Time.

He has spoken at numerous true crime and police history podcasts and conferences, and reguarly acts as a consultant for television documentary, film and radio producers.