Horrors of the Dead House: Policing the Streets of Old Cardiff

John F. Wake investigates the seedier side of Victorian life in Cardiff. As a former police officer, he approaches his research as investigations, and questions the motives and sentencing of the time. An absorbing, informative, and entertaining read.

ARTICLES

The Town Centre World Of The Rich

Cardiff's Rise To Fame... And Rise In Crime

Policing The Population Increase

Policing The Streets

Policing Bute Street Through The Years

Beat Duties

Police Vans

Heroes Or Villains? The Police On Trial

Charting The Growth Of Cardiff

Horrors Of The Dead House

Wife-Beating

The Question Never Asked

Children In Society

The Scourge Of Alcohol

Sunday Drinking On The South Side

Religion In The Backstreets

Sanitation

Dungeon's Disease

The Bull Ring

Bicycles

Darkest Cardiff Mary Ann Street - 1840-90s

When Severn's Sweeping Flood Had Overthrown - 1842

Trouble At The House Of Blazes

Noah's Ark Murder! - 1850

Timothy Harrington's Mysterious Dying Declaration - 1853

Consulates In Cardiff

Disturbing Death In Windsor Place - 1860

Bute Street's Lost Police Station - C.1860-90

Knife Crime And 'Foreigners' - 1860s

Another Senseless Baby Death - 1860

A Day In The Town Magistrates' Court - 1861 & 1905

Corpse In Dead House For Three Weeks - 1861

Dinah Pearson: Murderer? - 1864

A Murdered Man's Dying Declaration - 1869

Mysterious Drowning Of Sgt. Howard - 1869

A Tale Of Love And Death - C.1870

Walking A Hard Beat - 1870

Visiting A Mary Ann Street House - 1870-90s

Monster Mogford: Baby Murderer? - 1881

Cardiff's First Police Dog - 1885-93

Tommy Irons: The Friendless Man - 1888

Backstreet Pubs - 1888

Election Riot - 1888

Street Of Shame: Flagon Alley - 1888-1909

Front-Line Officers' Problems -1891

The Problem Of Fire - 1891

Women Are Second-Class Citizens: Trollop Lane - 1893

Woman On Fire - 1895

Inspector Ben Davies Of The Bute Street Nick - 1895-1909

Sudden Death In Love Lane - 1895

The Ellen O'Brian Horror - 1903

Brutal Wife-Beating Leads To Murder - 1903

Kathleen's Story A Fictional Account By Cheryl O'Brien

Endnote - A Twenty-First Century Perspective