This red-brick constructing in Central London, previously the workplaces of the Dundee Courier newspaper, was the deal with of Sweeney Todd's barbershop within the widespread Victorian period weekly-serial-turned-folk-legend.
It was at this deal with that the Demon Barber of Fleet Avenue and his depraved assistant, Mrs. Lovett, would homicide and rob their victims. Legend has it that Todd would slice the throats of his unassuming clients along with his straight razor whereas they sat in his chair, which was specifically constructed above a gap within the flooring that related to the cellar of the constructing – as soon as useless, the victims can be dropped right down to the basement degree, the place Todd and Mrs. Lovett would eliminate the our bodies by baking them into meat pies to be bought in Mrs. Lovett's pie store.
First showing in a penny dreadful, a method of weekly serial tales highly regarded in nineteenth century Britain, in 1846, Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett are two figures in fictional historical past which have horrified and thrilled lovers of literature, theater, and the macabre for hundreds of years. Sweeney Todd's story has gone on to be a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and was finally made right into a film directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp within the titular position. Claims that the story are primarily based on a real-life historic determine have up to now gone unverified however proceed to seize the general public's creativeness.
Whereas within the story, 186 Fleet Avenue was solely cited because the deal with of Todd's store, native legend now names the situation because the unofficial residence of The Demon Barber himself. The brick constructing's declare to fame has grown to incorporate its being the situation of Sweeney's residence in addition to the famed “Mrs. Lovett's Pie Store” the place Sweeney's diabolical deeds had been reworked into savory pies. Beneath the church subsequent door is alleged to be the very place the place the stays of Sweeney's victims had been floor down into the filling that will be used for Mrs. Lovett's meat pies.
