The Thames Torso Murders

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  The mortuary of St George’s in the East as it is today. Bodies recovered from the Thames as well as the Pinchin Street torso were brought here for dissection. Photo: Carol Trow

  The headquarters of the River Police (Thames Division) at 259 Wapping High St. The building was originally the home of the magistrate Robert Colquhoun who founded the unit in 1795. The insert shows a typical police galley of the 1880s which could be fitted with sail for work nearer the Estuary.

  One of the most unpleasant duties of Thames Division was pulling suicides out of the Thames.

  Accident survivors and rescued suicides were given a bath and a bed in this room in Waterloo police station. The highest number of suicides took place off Waterloo Bridge.

  The rest room at Waterloo police station of the Thames Division. Note the oilskins hanging on the back wall.

  The railings outside 33 Fitzroy square. A package containing body parts was found here by a patrolling policeman in 1884. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  The Thames as the Victorians would have liked it to be. These girls are punting somewhere near Oxford.

  The ground-level window of New Scotland Yard. A ramp led down below this point into the basement, where a torso and separated legs were found during the building process in 1888. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  Norman Shaw’s opera house became the headquarters of the metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard in 1893. Body parts were found in its basement three years earlier. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  The ornamental gardens in Mornington Crescent where body parts were found in 1884. There was controversy over whether these belonged to other remains in neighbouring squares or not. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  A Thames Division galley upriver along Chelsea Reach where body parts were found in the 1870s and 1880s. An inspector and three constables patrol the river.

  Thames Division police galleys patrolled the river night and day on the alert for crime of all sorts.

  The peculiar eddying current along Chelsea Reach was responsible for carrying body parts both up and down the river. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  The foreshore along Chelsea Reach showing the skeleton outline of the old wharves before the Embankment development by Joseph Bazalgette. Photo credit: Carol Trow

  The Drill Hall and Armoury at 33 Fitzroy Square. Body parts were placed behind the railings at the bottom left of the picture in 1884. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  Dr Thomas Bond was the brilliant police surgeon of A Division Metropolitan Police who worked on both the torso victims and those of Jack the Ripper.

  The lodge entrance to Battersea Park. To the right of this position and straight ahead in the undergrowth were scattered the body parts of the prostitute Elizabeth Jackson. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  Battersea Park from Battersea Bridge. Harrison Barber’s slaughterhouse lay a quarter of a mile away. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell

  Nothing of the Victorian Alfred Mews remains, but somewhere along this street near a rubbish bin were found parts of a human body which were taken for disposal at King’s Cross station. Photo credit: Eloise Campbell