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Rochester Row
Street in the City of Westminster, London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rochester Row is a street in the City of Westminster in London that runs between Greycoat Place in the north and Vauxhall Bridge Road in the south.
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It is joined by Greycoat Street, Rochester Street, Vincent Square, Emery Hill Street, Vane Street, Stillington Street, and Willow Place.
On 4 May 1927,[1] the Charing Cross Trunk Murder took place in a third floor office at 86 Rochester Row.[2] On 6 May, John Robinson, a 35-year-old estate agent, took a cab to Charing Cross railway station, where he deposited a large black trunk in the left-luggage office.[2] On 10 May after a "dreadful smell" was noted, the police opened the trunk to find the dismembered body of a woman.[2] Robinson eventually confessed to the murder of prostitute Minnie Bonati, for which he was hanged on 12 August.[2][3]
It is the location of a number of listed and other notable buildings:
- Pair of K6 telephone kiosks[4]
- St Stephen's Church[5]
- United Westminster Almshouses[6]
- Police station[7]
- Magistrates Court[8]