The date was December 16, 1897, and heartthrob William Terriss had just entered the Adelphi Theatre through the stage door. Murder was just around the corner, though he didn’t know it then. After an inauspicious start to life which had begun with a failed stint in the Merchant Navy, the 50-year-old stage actor could now … Continue reading The forgotten history of the Rotherhithe Hippodrome that captivated Londoners for fifty years