Execution site

Ruth Ellis

Holloway Prison, London

The last woman hanged in Britain.

Ruth Ellis shot her violent lover, David Blakely, outside a Hampstead pub in 1955. She was sentenced to death, and hanged at Holloway Prison by Albert Pierrepoint.

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When: 13 July 1955
Where: 51.5540, -0.1200
Group: Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Holloway Prison closed in 2016. The Magdala pub in Hampstead still shows bullet marks.

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