London Legends – Timeline Trip

Oliver Cromwell’s headLa cabeza de Oliver Cromwell

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The posthumous execution After the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 under Charles’s son, King Charles II, nine surviving regicides who had participated in the trial and execution of Charles I were tried, convicted and sentenced to be dragged through the streets, hung by the neck and cut down live, disembowelled while alive, beheaded

Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of London Sweeney Todd, el barbero diabólico de Londres

The demon barber of Fleet Street According to legend which first appeared in 1846 in a story titled The String of Pearls, Sweeney Todd was a barber believed to have murdered more than 150 of his customers at his barber shop situated at number 186 Fleet Street. Once they were sat in his barber’s chair,