New Year’s Eve, 1888, fell on a Monday, and, as the country as a whole prepared to ring in 1889, the people of London found themselves enveloped in a thick fog. The Globe described the state of the […]
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Miller’s Court was where the murder of Mary Kelly, the final victim of Jack the Ripper, occurred on the 9th of November 1888. It stood off Dorset Street, a thoroughfare that had such a bad reputation that it […]
Read ArticleSamuel Millstein and his wife Annie ran a restaurant at 62, Hanbury Street Spitalfields. According to neighbours, they were a pleasant couple and they ran their business efficiently, albeit, following a downturn in trade in 1911, Mr Millstein, […]
Read ArticleThe big news in the East End of London over the Christmas period, 1888, was that another murder of a woman had been committed in Clarke’s Yard, off Poplar High Street, on December, 19th, 1888. All though we […]
Read ArticleFor the residents of Soho, leafing through their newspapers in the days after Christmas in 1900, the news that a woman’s leg and been found in their district on Christmas Eve must have made for rather unpleasant reading. […]
Read ArticleIt is a sad fact of policing that, over the years, numerous police officers have paid the ultimate price for their service by being murdered in the line of duty. From the perspective of the Whitechapel murders, the […]
Read ArticleIn July, 1898, news broke that an apparently very gruesome murder had been committed in Hull. The victim was a lady by the name of Emily Hall, and the injuries inflicted upon her were, according to many papers, […]
Read ArticleOver the weekend of 8th to the 9th December, 1888, with London still reeling from the shock of the recent Jack the Ripper murders, a brutal assault was made in Sunderland on Jane Rigg by her husband William. […]
Read ArticleBy Saturday the 15th December, the initial horror and revulsion at murder of Mary Kelly, which had taken place the previous month had given way to a sort of morbid curiosity about the case. However, individual, many of […]
Read ArticleOn Friday, 13th December, 1889, labourers unloading a barge of rubbish in Middlesbrough, discovered a a woman’s hand amongst the detritus. Since the boat on which the hand was found had loaded its cargo of garbage in Millwall, […]
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