At 7am on Monday the 23rd of August, 2021, the new station concourse for Whitechapel Station opened to the public, and commuters could once again enter the station via the original 1876 façade on Whitechapel Road. THE NEW […]
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Louis Diemschutz was the steward of the International Workingman’s Educations Society – also known as the Berner Street Club – which was based at number 40 Berner Street. He also had a side line dealing in cheap jewellery, […]
Read ArticleThe Edinburgh Castle had been a popular pub and music hall venue on Rhodeswell Road, Limehouse, when, in February, 1873, Dr. Thomas Barnardo took it over and reopened it as the “British Workmen’s Coffee Palace.” In 1888, it […]
Read ArticleOnce the name “Jack the Ripper” had been released to the general public, in October, 1888, mentions of him began turning up in newspapers all over the country, and, for that matter, all over the world. It is […]
Read ArticleA claim that is often made against the Victorian police who were tasked with hunting Jack the Ripper in 1888, as that they wee incompetent and that they bugled the investigation into the Whitechapel Murders. It is often […]
Read ArticleThe Jack the Ripper murders certainly exposed the horrors and the dangers of the lives that were led by many of the women who found themselves on the streets of the East End of London, and their was […]
Read ArticleOn August 31st, 1888, Charles Cross was on his way to his place of employment, Pickford’s, near Liverpool Street, where he worked as a carman, or van driver, when he discovered the boy of Mary Nichols in a […]
Read ArticleWell into the 20th century, journalists and retired police officers were reminiscing about the Whitechapel murders in newspapers across the country. Since many of them were remembering, as opposed to consulting notebooks and official documents from the time […]
Read ArticleIn the 19th century, a constant hazard of living in London, and in the East End of London in particular, was the heavy flooding that could follow a prolonged downpour of rain. The summer of 1888, for example, […]
Read ArticleIt is a question that has, over the years absorbed film makers several times over. It has also been asked in graphic novels and computer games. Members of the public, newspaper journalists and goodness knows who else has […]
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