I live in Crookes, in the old doctors house on the left as you pass the Closed Shop. It is said Dr Blakely lived there and it was his son that was murdered by Ruth Ellis. The older ale drinkers locally tell me that she visited the house I live in and that she drank at The Hallamshire House in the early 50s. Can anyone substantiate this for me plz. It is not the doctors surgery on School Road but the house on the corner of School Road and Lemmington Road. Did she sit in my dining room?

dr John Blakely murdered a waitress in 1934 and came from crookes.
think youve got the blakelys mixed up.
nothing to do with ruth ellis.

www.chrishobbs.com/johnblakely.htm

Funny you should say that. I heard something similar very recently about this too. I couldn't find any evidence that Ruth Ellis visited Sheffield but the stuff about Dr Blakely and his son is true.

http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/messages/genbbs.cgi/New?print=16583

I found a biography of her life here:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/ellis/1.html

...but no mention that she was ever in Sheffield.

Nomme

Originally posted by tara
dr John Blakely murdered a waitress in 1934 and came from crookes.
think youve got the blakelys mixed up.
nothing to do with ruth ellis.

www.chrishobbs.com/johnblakely.htm

If you read the last sentence or 2 of that page you have cited you'll see that there is no mixup.

" The reason why it was not forgotten lies in the life (and death) of Dr Blakely's youngest son David. David Blakely was shot and murdered outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, London on Easter Sunday 1955. The person who pulled the trigger was Ruth Ellis who was hung for the murder - the last woman to be hanged in England. "

Nomme

correction yes he was the son.
Didnt read it all.

tara,

You might want to try again.

Dr Blakely did not murder anyone, according to the jury!!!

The house was the current doctors surgery on school road i think its number 203 school road . pretty sure I read that one a website somewhere

From the information on websites it appears that:

1. Dr Blakely didn't murder anyone, he performed an illegal abortion on the woman and she died of septicaemia

2. He lived in the other house you mentioned, which was actually on School road (no. 203)

3. He died and the house was sold before his son even met Ruth Ellis, which he did when living elsewhere (London I think) so it appears she didn't come to Sheffield

Thank you for all your replies but I live in No 182 School road, was this ever a doctor's house? I have tried to discover but the nearest I can get too is that it appears on 1895 OS Map and in those days was called The Laurels. Any help here would be appreciated.

who the hell is RUTH ELLIS ? :confused: never heard of her :confused:

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England. Try and catch a film called 'Dance With A Stranger'

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
I live in Crookes, in the old doctors house on the left as you pass the Closed Shop. It is said Dr Blakely lived there and it was his son that was murdered by Ruth Ellis. The older ale drinkers locally tell me that she visited the house I live in and that she drank at The Hallamshire House in the early 50s. Can anyone substantiate this for me plz. It is not the doctors surgery on School Road but the house on the corner of School Road and Lemmington Road. Did she sit in my dining room?
My girlfriend used to play in "the doctors house" in the early seventies,when it was empty,apparently all the local kids played there,they once found loads of doctors instruments in the attic,the police eventually moved them on and the house was boarded up,and later made into flats.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
I live in Crookes, in the old doctors house on the left as you pass the Closed Shop. It is said Dr Blakely lived there and it was his son that was murdered by Ruth Ellis. The older ale drinkers locally tell me that she visited the house I live in and that she drank at The Hallamshire House in the early 50s. Can anyone substantiate this for me plz. It is not the doctors surgery on School Road but the house on the corner of School Road and Lemmington Road. Did she sit in my dining room?

The place where he lived was further up on the corner with School Road and Conduit road. That used too be a Doctors too. The man who Ruth Ellis murded lived there when he was a lad.

The place where you live now used to be Doctors, we used to play in that big front garden as kids with the doctors son Patrick. The Doctor there was called Doctor Haze (spelling), he was an Irish chap who liked a drink (gin).

Its an interesting theory, even if it does turn out to be false.
Its worth digging for this one I reckon.:thumbsup:

Ethel Christie, the wife of the notorious serial killer John Haliday Christie (remember 10 Rillington Place?) used to live in Sheffield, where she had relatives. Not sure where. She was one of Christie's victims.

Meanwhile, I believe the body of UK's most prolific serial killer, Harold Shipman, is in a mortuary somewhere in Sheffield.

And then of course, there was Charles Peace - not sure where he lived either.

Originally posted by LordChaverly

Meanwhile, I believe the body of UK's most prolific serial killer, Harold Shipman, is in a mortuary somewhere in Sheffield.


The medico-legal centre. Even in death he becomes a huge public expense (aside from all the legal costs of the inquiries etc.).

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Originally posted by spook
no he was moved from Sheffield some time ago.

There were various reports of his cremation in February 2004 which were the press getting confused. As far as I was aware he is still in the centre, but I also found this on the BBC site:

An inquest into the death of mass murderer Harold Shipman is due to be held in April 2005.
A spokesman for the coroner said the resumed inquest would be at Leeds Crown Court on April 11, and was expected to last two weeks.

Two post-mortems have provisionally concluded Shipman's death was consistent with being hanged by a ligature.

His body was released for cremation but it has never been retrieved from a mortuary in Sheffield.

Shipman's family are understood to have doubts that he took his own life and believe his corpse has unexplained injuries.

But a Home Office spokesman said: "We can't comment until we receive the results of the coroner's inquest and independent investigation into Harold Shipman's death."