Court No.1 The Old Bailey

Court Number One of the Old Bailey is the most famous courtroom in the world, and the venue of some of Britain’s most sensational criminal dramas.

Over the last century it has witnessed the trials of the notorious and the infamous. It was here that the likes of Dr Crippen, Madame Fahmy, Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, John Christie, Ruth Ellis, Dr Bodkin Adams, George Blake (and his unlikely jailbreakers, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle), Stephen Ward, Jeremy Thorpe, Peter Sutcliffe and Ian Huntley were defined in history, alongside a wide assortment of other traitors, lovers, politicians, psychopaths, spies, con men and – of course – the innocent. Not only notorious for its murder trials, Court Number One recorded the changing face of British society, providing a window on to the thrills, fears and foibles of the modern age.