![]() Lock 97 on the Hanwell Flight is unremarkable. And being entirely unlit except by moonlight, it’s busy by day, but dead by night. It may sound idyllic – being blessed with chirping coots, splashing fishes and a bright red blur as foxes dart among the thicket – but this peace is drowned-out by the roar of traffic, the chug of chimneys, the crunch of scrapyards and the panicked slip as the most cautious walker trips on broken bricks and bike parts, only to narrowly miss the stinky bin-bags bobbing in the brown water. Being part-rural and part-industrial, it’s mostly a muddy towpath which skirts the descending canal, with bushes on both sides and a few secluded side paths every half mile or so. Stuck at the far end of West London (but technically Middlesex), this is a popular place for dog-walkers, joggers and strollers seeking a lungful of fresh-air, as well as cyclists avoiding the trucks and buses of the surrounding roads. This is the Hanwell Flight, a series of locks on the most southerly stretch of the Grand Union giving steady passage for boats beginning high on the hill at Southall, dropping down passed Three Bridges (Brunel’s last construction project which cleverly overlays a road, a rail-line and a canal), along the back of the old Hanwell Asylum, passed Lock Cottage, Brentford Weir, Trumper’s Bridge, Elthorne and Boston Manor parks, and ending at the basin of Brentford Gauging Lock and the River Thames beyond. Today I’m standing on the towpath of the Grand Union Canal eleven miles west of the severed pieces of Paula Fields, eight miles west of the suitcase of Marta Ligman, eight miles west of the dismembered torso of Hannah Brown (whose head was found six miles east), six miles north of Thames Towpath murders, and two and a half miles east of the family of Amarjit Chohan – coming soon to Murder Mile. My name is Michael, I am your tour-guide and this is Murder Mile.Įpisode 120: The Yellow Ribbons of Hanwell – Part One. And as a dramatization of the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that no matter where you listen to this podcast, you’ll feel like you’re actually there. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details. Murder Mile is researched using authentic sources. She was captured on camera and seen by eye-witnesses, and yet, in the blink of an eye, she had vanished. A beautiful and talented young girl from a loving family, who went for a walk by the canal on a bright summer’s day. Today’s episode is about the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Alice Gross. SCRIPT: Welcome to Murder Mile a true-crime podcast and audio guided walk featuring many of London’s untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. No7 Alone With My Thoughts by Esther Ambrami.Floating Angelic (deep drum) by James Longley.Under the Stairs (Instrumental) by Josh Woodward.Don’t Let It Go Away (an original composition) by Alice Gross. ![]()
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