Terrace at Tyburn
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Terrace at Tyburn
Image: © Anthony O'Neil Taken: 10 Jul 2019
These town houses, overlooking Bayswater Road, were built at a time when the area was infinitely less traffic ridden ... although subject to regular public executions. The first house, on the corner (which would have overlooked the triple Tyburn gallows), was once the London home of Lord Randolph Churchill (although he could not have witnessed any of the hangings since the last here was in 1783). A few blocks down, on the main thoroughfare, is Tyburn Convent which was partly dedicated to praying for the repose of souls of Catholics martyred here in Elizabethan times.
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Image Location
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51.513513
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-0.161832