Photo scanned from 'Ghost Stories' of young man pleading with young woman, added for decorative purposes.

Murder and suicide in the Slough office of Horlicks Malted milk Company. The killer, Charles Ernest Squire, lived in Vaughan Road, Harrow. Miss Hilda Cooke was a local.

#HorlicksHorror, 1907. Jilted man shoots lover dead, turns gun on himself. #HarrowObserver reporter torn between mourning a tragedy, admiring the marksmanship. #HarrowMacabre #murther #youngpeoplearetoblameforeverything

The Port Stone in St Mary's churchyard, Harrow on the Hill. © Gloomy Sundae/ Marion Bondage Photo archive.

The gory inscription.

7 Aug. 1838. Thomas Port, ticket inspector, became Harrow's first steam railway fatality when he fell onto the track while stepping between carriages. His tombstone in St Mary's churchyard bears the above, fabulously gory inscription. #ThomasPort #HarrowMacabre