Author: Richard Jones

In a previous look at John Thomson’s wonderful Street Life In London, we ventured out to Whitechapel to make the acquaintance of “Hookey Alf” and his fellow drinkers, whom Thomson and his word-smith, Adolphe Smith, encountered outside a pub […]

Whilst perusing Youtube for old footage of London, I came across an astonishing black and white film that shows London in the year 1903. It provides us with a truly wonderful opportunity to, literally, look back in time […]

It’s time for another quiz on the Jack the Ripper murders. This one is a mixture of questions, or challenges as some might call them, that have either true or false or multiple choice answers. The questions concern […]

One of the more intriguing things about the Jack the Ripper case is, just how many ordinary people seem to have felt the need to involve themselves in the hunt for the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders, sometimes […]

FORENSICS AND JACK THE RIPPER Forensics as we know them were completely unknown to the police of 1888, and the inspection and investigation of the body of a murder victim would have been conducted by the doctors, who […]

A fascinating, though slightly chilling, thing to do is to visit the graves of the various people connected with the Jack the Ripper case. They are, after all, figures that we have read about time and time again. […]

On Wednesday the 11th April 1888 The Morning Post carried an article headlined “ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN WHITECHAPEL.” The article went on to inform readers that:- Inquiries are being made in Whitechapel with reference to a violent assault upon a […]

This year we’ve been keeping an eye on the streets of the East End of London, especially around the vicinity of the former Dorset Street, where the buildings that stood there have now been demolished. A few weeks […]

A sad fact of modern life is that more and more of the East End of London disappears with each passing year. Often, the creep of redevelopment is a slow moving, so much so that you don’t tend […]

Today sees the anniversary of an attack in 1888 which became the first of the Whitechapel Murders. The crime in question was almost certainly not carried out by the murderer who became known as Jack the Ripper, but […]