South Hill Park (London street)
- South Hill Park (London street)
South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of London. It is within the London Borough of Camden, and some of its houses overlook Hampstead Heath."(For the arts centre in Berkshire see South Hill Park").
Transport links
Hampstead Heath railway station, on the North London Line, is at the southern end of South Hill Park. Buses, chiefly the number 24, depart from nearby South End Green.
Ruth Ellis and Styllou Christofi
The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, was sentenced to death for a murder committed on South Hill Park. She shot her boyfriend, David Blakely, outside a public house, The Magdala, on April 10, 1955. The pub, with its original name, remains.
Coincidentally, the second-last woman to be hanged in Britain, Styllou Christofi, lived a few metres from the Magdala at 11 South Hill Park [According to the 1954 Electoral Register for England] , with her son and daughter-in-law. She was executed in December 1954, four months before Ellis committed her crime.
Notable residents
*The film director Anthony Minghella lived in South Hill Park until his death in 2008 [ [http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2008/032008/news032008_06.html Camden New Journal - News: A Cut above: warm tributes for film director Minghella ] ] . His son, Max Minghella, had a role in the film Hippie Hippie Shake, parts of which were shot in the street and its surrounding area [ [http://www.sienna-miller.org/archives.php?subaction=showfull&id=1192559811&archive=1199167430&start_from=&ucat=2& Sienna Miller Online | Welcome ] ] .
*Jonathan Ross and his family lived on South Hill Park in the 1990s.
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