Hindman's House of Horror

[ibilly99]

When I first moved to Dulwich which was way back in the prehistoric days of 1987 and houses could be bought for chump change there was a notorious case of two old guys living together in a basement flat in Hindmans Road. One of the guys dies of natural causes and his 'friend' continued to collect his pension for 9 months and the body of his friend was eventually found mummified in a chair in his kitchen. The smell eventually became so strong forces were mustered to check it out and the horrific situation was finally revealed. Does anybody else remember this as it was pre-internet days it is seemingly unremarked on the web.

Sounds like the old gits !

[katie1997]

Eeks, its a long road so which part of Hindmans was it, do you know? Maybe the library can help you find out more.

[ibilly99]

I'd rather not finger it directly except to say its the Northcross Road end.

[Selma]

I believe it happened in a flat on Hindmands Road towards Tyrell road. That is at least I heard the first day I moved in on Hindmans Road by a lady opposite that had lived her for 40 years.

[ibilly99]

So it wasn't a false memory - quite a national story at the time.

[i*Rate]

Hi ibilly99,

Yes, we moved here in 1980 and my wife remembers that story very well - a true story we believe. We think that Selma is right to say that it was near Tyrell Road because only those houses have basements.

Does anyone remember the old lady that had a little shop in Upland Road, opposite the current second hand shop and near the corner of Darryl Road? The shop has since been converted to a house after she left and later passed away, but she lived in a flat above at the time. She was a psychic who many people travelled miles to see and bred dozen of poodles. Her husband was Indian and died from mercury poisoning. The shop had a display of weird and wonderful books and objects, quite a curiosity at the time.

Cheers.

[ibilly99]

Oh yes I do very well she was a witch. Opposite her house was a row of shops which included a hairdressers where they filmed an ITV comedy series starring some young hunk the name of which escapes me now.

[chichirara]

When I moved into my house {wont say where cos I dont want to know} but an old man said to me, Oh someone died in there. I dont live in Hindmans. Freaked me out.

[PipD]

you don't want to know where you live? how ever do you get home after work?

chichirara Wrote:

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> When I moved into my house {wont say where cos I

> dont want to know} but an old man said to me, Oh

> someone died in there. I dont live in Hindmans.

> Freaked me out.