Stoke-on-Trent is not the sort of place you’d readily associate with Jack the Ripper and yet recently it became the scene of the murder of the woman who, many believe, was the last of his victims, Mary Kelly. […]
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I was asked an intriguing question last night on a tour. We had arrived at the site of Miller’s Court, where Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 9th November 1888. I had […]
Read ArticleToday Leyton Station is very busy indeed. It’s one of the Central Line Stops that people alight from to get in to the Olympic Park. As the thousands of visitors leave the tube trains they might catch a […]
Read ArticleOne of the things that people often comment on when we introduce them to the area where the Jack the Ripper murders occurred is just how close together the killings were. Indeed, when you set out to walk […]
Read ArticleYesterday I ended the blog with one of those wonderful old cliché cliff-hangers TO BE CONTINUED. My adventures in Ripper land last week took me to Chiswick Mall where the body of a major Jack the Ripper suspect […]
Read ArticleYesterday’s article looked at whether Jack the Ripper’s early crimes, the murders of Mary Nichols and Annie Chapman, suggested that their killer demonstrated any medical knowledge. Today’s article looks at the last three vicitms, Catherine Eddowes, Elizabeth Stride […]
Read ArticlePardon the dreadful pun on today’s Jack the Ripper news update, but I just couldn’t resist it! The reason for this dreadful title is because today I wanted to look briefly at what the area where the murders […]
Read ArticleDorset Street is no more. Indeed, it has long since vanished in both name and presence, and it is now nothing more than a nameless thoroughfare that squeezes between the White’s Row Car Park on its eastern side, […]
Read ArticleSometimes it is interesting to focus on the background to the police investigation and look at the bigger picture of what was going on in the Metropolitan Police at the time of the murders. There was a huge […]
Read ArticleThey say that a video presentation is worth a thousand words, or was that a picture! Either way I recently shadowed John Bennett as he led a group of eager participants around the East End on his Jack […]
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