2009

SO9418 : Tower lodge, once quite famous because of its, albeit tenuous, association with a horrific murder....

taken 16 years ago, near to Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England

Tower lodge, once quite famous because of its, albeit  tenuous, association with a horrific murder....
Tower lodge, once quite famous because of its, albeit tenuous, association with a horrific murder....
The lodge had a minor association with a headless torso found at Haw Bridge in 1938. It was believed to be a Captain William Butt of Bath Road Cheltenham, although it was never identified.
The son of a nurse who looked after Butt's mother was found dead a couple of weeks before at Tower lodge, apparently a suicide.
As a kid in the 50s it was always scary walking by the lodge! Probably not helped by adults embellishing the murder etc.
The case was never solved.
There is a book about it, "The Great British Torso Mystery"

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norman hyett   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 23 October, 2009   (more nearby)
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 947 189 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:52.1190N 2:4.6244W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SO 948 188
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