JACK THE RIPPER'S AREA NOWADAYS


Actually, the Whitechapel area isn’t similar at the white chapel of the 1888.The great majority of houses and some of the streets have disappeared or have changed the name.

Now a days white chapel hasn’t lost this margination. Walking on the narrow streets at night makes you feel insecure. However, in the day it’s a very popular area, specially at the weekends, because it has lots of attractions like the Spitalfields Market, el Petticoat Lane Market  and the Brick Lane market.

There’re some different tours about Jack the Ripper route, showing the different places where his victims were murdered, and the tours are at night because it’s more exciting.

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Back on Commercial Street and across the road from Christchurch, a car park now occupies the site of Dorset Street, where Mary Kelly was murdered on 9 November 1888. A food warehouse now stands over the site of Miller’s Court, where her body was found.

Kelly

Mitre Square, where Catherine Eddowes died, has seen its old warehouse buildings replaced by a school and office buildings.

EddowesHappy days

One building, however survives 10 minutes’ walk away, Wentworth Model Dwelling rise over Goulston Street, and the doorway where the bloodstained piece of Catherine’s apron was found is now the take-away counter of the Happy Days Fish and Chip shop.

On Berner Street, where Elizabeth Stride was killed on 30 September, nothing has survived. The place is now occupied by a school playground.

On Commercial Street, the Ten Bells pub, linked with the final hours of both Annie Chapman and Mary Kelly, is still there. Opposite it is the white tower of Christchurch, Spitafields. It dominates its surroundings today, just as it did in 1888.

Ten Bells PubTen Bells

An ugly building stands on the site of 29 Hanbury Street, in the back yard of which the body of Annie Chapman was found, the south side, is more or less intact.

Hanbury

Round the corner on Brick Lane, the Sheraz Balti Restaurant is now where it used to be the pub “Frying Pan”, where Mary Nichols drank the night of her murder.

Restaurant

Also on Whitechapel High Street, the “White Hart Pub”, in the cellar of which suspect George Chapman (Klosowski) worked as a barber in 1890. Adjoining it is the sinister arch to Gunthorpe Street where Martha’s Tabram’s body was discovered.
The White Hart
BUCK’S ROW, where Mary Nichols died on 31 August 1888, disappeared, in fact it changed its name into DURWARD STRET, because the local residents asked the council to do that, due to the popularity and the visits of people. A small, litter-strewn car park now stands on the murder itself.

One building, however, has survived in the immediate vicinity. The board school towers, today converted into flats.

Durward

Close to that, the London Hospital still stands on whitechapel High Stret. It was here where Emma Smith died.
Graves where Jack the Ripper's victims are burried

MARY ANN NICHOLS

ANNIE CHAPMAN

 

ELIZABETH STRIDE

 

CATHERINE EDDOWES

 

MARY JANE KELLY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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