Year: 2012

Ramsey Home Guard

On the morning of February 1, 1941, the Ramsey Home Guard received word that a suspected spy (Josef Jakobs) had been discovered in a field near Dove House Farm. Situated near the RAF Upwood airbase, the Home Guard was primed to be on the lookout for suspicious folk. A simple phone call by Home Guard

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Tower of London

Josef Jakobs on Facebook

I had no idea that Josef had a Facebook page! How can one have a Facebook page when one has been deceased for 70+ years? Well, apparently “famous people”, deceased or alive, get a Facebook page if they have a Wikipedia article. So the information on Josef’s Facebook page is essentially the same information as

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Who is Kenneth C. Howard?

N.B. See my February 12, 2017 blog for a break in the case. The Public Record Office (National Archives) in Kew has a small museum which, when I visited in January 2012, contained a small display case featuring some items to do with Josef. One of the items was a small black notebook, apparently found

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Tower of London

Filming – Bloody Tales of the Tower

An independent film company, True North Productions, contacted me in December. They are producing a mini-documentary on the history of the Tower and had heard about me. After several email conversations and an introductory Skype call, we connected via Skype, and I was interviewed by one of the hosts of the show. The documentary is

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