East Lane Cemetery, entrance dated 1886. The disused graveyard is associated with the former Victorian Leavesden Asylum (1870 - 1997). East Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK, 18 September 2019
PS: Nine years ago I was attending the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, listening to a panel discussion by writers, talking about their books. One of the speakers, a former Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, had authored a book titled “Policing Controversy”. He promised to reveal the name of Jack the Ripper at the end of his talk. Quite a clever way to keep an audience, I thought, because as the head of the Metropolitan Police, he would have had access to information not available to the public. At the end of his talk, he revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper as Aaron Kosminski, an inmate of Leavesden Asylum, who had died in 1919 and was buried in a cemetery behind Leavesden Asylum, which I think could be the one pictured. On the other hand, a lady walking through, I talked with, said that there was another former burial ground, with no access, in the vicinity, which might be the place in question! East Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK, 18 September 2019 rkw
Date: 18/09/2019
Location: East Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
