Decision Made.

The event I have decided to research is the death of Charles Bravo at The Priory on Bedford Hill, London on 21st April 1876. 

Upon researching I found that it took Charles three days to die after being poisoned and in that time he was attended to by several doctors, including Sir William Gull who was the royal physician of Queen Victoria. All the physicians who examined Charles concluded that he was poisoned with antimony, but that he gave no clue as to the source of the poisoning. He suffered in silent agony until he died. 

Antimony is a metalloid element which has been used in bullets, plain bearings and tins, and can be found in many commercial and domestic products. Antimony was also used in cosmetic palettes as eye kohl by the Egyptians in the Prehistoric Egypt. 

His wife was Florence Bravo née Campbell, who had been previously widowed by Alexander Louis Ricardo. I also found that prior to her first husbands death she was having an affair with a doctor named, James Manby Gully. Shortly before marrying Charles she ended the affair. 

I have been told stories of this place over the years by my father and he always said he saw a pale woman with dark hair, in a dark coloured Victorian dress inside one of the windows. He had no idea what happened to the people who had lived there in the past and he was not a man who scared easily. Naturally, I was interested in this seemingly creepy place since my father claims he saw the ghost of a woman in the house while out with his dog, Shona and his best friend, Pete. What convinced him most about what he had seen was that his normally playful hound was petrified at the time. She pulled on the lead all the way home and as soon as she was indoor she hid under the stairs for the next two days, jumping and whimpering at every sound and would not go near the residence again.