Steph's Walking Sweeney Todd Tour
I’m a nerd.
I wanted to visit the place where the “real” Sweeney Todd killed his victims and put them into pies.
Well, americanwolf, Sweeney Todd has been deemed by most scholars to be an imaginary murderer,
having no basis in historical fact!
Shut it, imaginary peanut crowd. Some scholars actually believe that Sweeney Todd could have been a
real person. And if he was, this is where he would have done his killing:
This is 186 Fleet Street, beneath which hundreds of bodies were found in the 18th century, which
was thought to be the residence of Sweeney Todd’s barber shop. The bodies were most likely
due to a crypt of a nearby church, but legends are what legends are.
This is where old Judge Turpin would have had his court hearings.
And this street is where it was said that Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop racked in the profits.
It was on the other side of Temple bar, where young Law scholars required a bite to eat.
Not to do with Sweeny Todd, but in the general vicinity, was the Mythical dragon separating Westminster
from the actual city of London.
Creepy, isn’t it?