Author: Richard Jones

The Workhouse loomed large over the lives – and in some cases the deaths –  of many of the poor and destitute in Whitechapel at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. In particular Workhouses features in […]

Just a few minutes walk from where our Jack the Ripper tour begins, there is a little park, which is the Altab Ali Park. Looking closely at the park, you will notice that there are graves and tombstones scattered […]

During the late 19th century, the Metropolitan Police came in for a mixture of admiration and criticism from the Victorian press. Much of the criticism was politically motivated and originated with newspapers that were pushing a particular agenda. […]

The Whitechapel Workhouse loomed over the streets of the area in 1888 and features in the mystery of Jack the Ripper in that it was to its mortuary that the bodies of several of the victims were taken […]

On Monday the 24th of September 1888, with the Whitechapel murders causing widespread panic in the East End of London; and the general press coverage on the murder of Annie Chapman – which had taken place on the […]

Although there is a general consensus today that Jack the Ripper’s last victim was Mary Kelly, who was murdered on the 9th November 1888 in her room in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, it must be remembered that, […]

On Saturday 5th February 1898, the East End of London was thrown into turmoil by news that a double fatal shooting had occurred in Brick Lane, the long thoroughfare, now predominantly lined by Indian restaurants, that stretches from […]

Goodness me, the year is fast drawing to a close! In ten days, it’ll be Christmas, then, before you can say Sir Charles Warren was a very worthy Metropolitan Police Commissioner, it’s be 2017! Where does all the […]

By December the 1st 1888, the East End appeared to be undergoing something of a respite from the horrors of the Jack the Ripper murders. This gave the newspapers something of a problem in that the coverage they […]

The Workhouse was a feature of the Victorian landscape. Its looming bulk rose, spectre-like, over the 19th century streets of many towns and cities. To a lot of paupers, the local workhouse offered a respite from hardship and […]