Jack the Ripper - 29 Hanbury Street Version Two

[@MrSASA51]

As mentioned above there was no second front door so the panelled extension into the passage way was a later addition. In th wreak garden earlier photos indicate fencing with intermittent slats….not sure how that is consistent with the neighbour’s version of sitting on his steps but seeing nothing. Otherwise an impressive animation thanks

[@Oakleaf700]

Explored enough run down old London houses as a kid [1970's] to know this is very accurate!

[@redrum4100]

Brilliant but also very frustrating for those of us trying to discover what the bottom end of the back yard looked like.

[@redrum4100]

@@Baz-Ten Thanks for the heads up. Do you have a link?

[@johncarlisle621]

the James Mason documentary clip on YT shows this clearly

[@redrum4100]

@@johncarlisle621 Indeed, but frustratingly that video doesn't show the back on the house (so that we can check both videos against each other for clarity).

[@RaiWitt]

Very good animation, thank you! Gives me a good impression of how it used to be back in the day.

[@DaiSmile]

My grandpaarents were living two doors away in the 1911 census.

[@keithnaylor1981]

This is amazing work. It’s as if you are there.

[@kevinfitz8516]

those stairs are almost vertical

[@simonyip5978]

Hanbury Street houses were originally built for quite well off people, before gradually getting worse and worse, until each room had a separate family living in it. Funnily enough, the surviving houses in Spitalfields and Whitechapel (ie Parfitt St, Fournier St, Wilkes St, Princelet St, Derbyshire St, Woodseer St etc, and the south side of Hanbury Street etc) are now very desirable and expensive houses. From beautiful homes, to hovels then back to being beautiful homes again.

[@rob5944]

And, who knows, maybe back to a slum again in another hundred years.

[@user-nq7yx7dg1w]

What you say is very interesting. I lived in London for three years as a student t and go back now and then . I have always felt fascinated by the East End. So many stories of the past are hidden in each corner, behind so many walls, and many a restored house. All there for those who know where to see and know how.

[@Tsumami__]

I mean Whitechapel and Spitalfields still seem like slums, but…

[@shiloh6519]

Why on earth didn't anyone take pictures or movies of the interior of this building(s) before they were demolished!

[@dsaword2622]

Amazing thanks for upload 😀

[@ianreynolds8552]

There is almost an aesthetic beauty about these places, the memories they hold , the men , women and children who lived here and whos psychological ghosts will be with us because of the poverty they encountered

[@englishbobuk]

Fantastic work!

[@daveboss2994]

Excellent, and better being silent. Made me shiver.

[@bobscycletours]

Thank you, an excellent piece of work, so realistic and interesting. Would love to know how you do it.

[@paulanthony5274]

Have you not seen the real life footage with James mason?

[@johncarlisle621]

@@paulanthony5274 yes, I saw that earlier today purely by chance

[@paulanthony5274]

@@johncarlisle621 It's just a scruffy back yard really but when something infamous happens you just want to know about it.

[@johncarlisle621]

@@paulanthony5274 have you ever visited any of the murder sites? personally, I only know them from the various Ripper documentaries I've watched. one particular documentary stands out for me, & it's where CGI has been used to reconstruct the Whitechapel streets at the time of the murders, & it's worth a watch if you're not familiar with it

[@MrNaKillshots]

Terrifying just living there, I'd imagine.

[@stephenbendavid1591]

Excellent !

[@christopheryazzie65]

In the backyard, where did the stairs under the porch roof lead to?

[@canonical5]

coal cellar under the house.

[@johncarlisle621]

according to one documentary I've seen, it was used by a tenant in the property ( the guy who's name I've forgotten who discovered the body ) to store his tools

[@chrischibnall593]

@@canonical5 In the James Mason sequence, I notice there is a wooden cover with a round hole over the cellar entrance.

[@liten48]

come on walls talk! who was he

[@michaelcloherty5352]

Very good i thought i was Jack for a minute

[@JPCesio]

Excelente. ¡Felicitaciones!

[@edwardburnsen-hicks2721]

Looks like mr Christie's house. 10 Rillington place.

[@johncarlisle621]

I don't see any comparison whatsoever, apart from them both looking dilapidated

[@PEMBYSGAMINGWORLD]

Any chance i could use this? I will credit you of course. Let me know because it is great work.

[@cutekanjii]

Makes u realise how incredible it really was that he was never caught in the act. So brash to kill her in such a place with so many families crammed in there with all sorts of people coming and going, with a window right next the the back steps where Annie Chapmans body was found and one probably right above. Even just leaving the scene. I 2inder why she led him out to the back rather than "do business" as that's what she would have thought she was going to do, in that little passageway inside or maybe it was incase someone came in to it or downstairs whereas nobody is going to enter from the back way but you'd think she would know more private places than that to take her customer.

[@paulanthony5274]

Probably turned her customers on, the thought of getting caught in the act. It certainly turned jtr on, he probably didn't care much about being caught but at the same time got off on it, bad seed!

[@johncarlisle621]

I doubt that would have been the first time she had taken a punter there. sadly the last time

[@johncarlisle621]

I agree, apparently it was well known by many of the local working ladies

[@shanegrant8441]

How did Jack get out to the back of this house

[@ianreynolds8552]

He may of gotten over a fence or a back ally

[@herculesrockerfeller4136]

Or simply the way he came

[@johncarlisle621]

I've seen a few ripper documentaries, & apparently the doors at either end of that passageway were nearly always left unlocked

[@nevittwoods1730]

To save on lighting people would strike a light at bottom and it would last until they were on the landing🕯

[@markdoran3350]

There weren't two doors in 1888...

[@nevittwoods1730]

Not far from the glassworks that made wine jugs ect🎩👜 and laundry

[@MultiRabe]

Creepy site for sure!

[@65mila]

Ma e una ricostruzione o e ancora nello stato originale?

[@eileenbrazil8039]

Demolished

[@rob5944]

Is that blood near the back door and on the floorboards?

[@shiloh6519]

No blood was found in that passage back to the yard.

[@rob5944]

@@shiloh6519 thanks, interesting to see the intervening period between the time of the murder and the streets eventual demolition.

[@conwayjefferson9527]

I Wonder if Aaron kosminski walked through that house?

[@ianreynolds8552]

No he was nt the murderer. Charles Cross who apparently was first on the scene and practically seconds after the murder took place is now latest candidate.

[@teddytimewimsey5485]

Ya spot on mate. He needs looking at. But I'd say he looks most probable.

[@albertwells8503]

He did if he was the Ripper. But I’m leaning more towards Charles Lechmere.

[@johncarlisle621]

@@ianreynolds8552 sounds very plausible, but several top coppers at the time believed it to be Kosminski. Donald Swanson's marginalia in his personally signed copy of Robert Anderson's biography attests to this. I mentioned in a previous comment that it was very suspicious for the police investigation to be shut down so soon after the Kelly murder. so much evidence has been lost or destroyed over the years, & I believe the top coppers back then knew a lot more than was ever made public. I'm a million miles away from being an expert on the subject so it's just a hunch

[@richardsimons6978]

Lechmere was the most probable candidate to have taken Annie through that hallway and out the back to her doom!

[@richardsimons6978]

Incredible! Just like actually being there.

[@edwardburnsen-hicks2721]

Why does everyone love jack the Ripper yet only thee select odd million love the yorkshire Ripper.

[@johncarlisle621]

Because Jack was never caught, or so we've been led to believe. it seems very strange that the entire police investigation was shut down very shortly after the horrific Mary Kelly murder. I could be wrong, but that suggests that the police knew something, & the information was suppressed

[@The.panthera.]

Nobody knows who jack was almost like some fictional character like spring heeled jack, plus it was before even our great grandparents lifetime. that's why people are so fascinated today

[@Spongebob0911]

It has always baffled me what drove women prostitutes of those times to actually dare to follow a man into such dark and obscure environment just to have payed sex with them ... but i guess money has that effect on people who are destitute ...

[@rob5944]

Certainly, they were desperate. It's hard to appreciate how difficult life was for many and I expect she led him. It was probably a place she knew of and maybe even used before.

[@Bananadiva1]

Since all these woman lived in an era where there was no benefits system and they were abandoned by their husbands and families they were left with the option of either prostitution or starvation on the streets. Realistically speaking all the victims were probably only casual prostitutes who only turned to working the streets when other work was not available to them.

[@ianreynolds8552]

I m surprised you ve even asked that ! In Victorian society there was only the work house or work. No social security of any description. You worked or you staved Look in to the background of whitechapel and other areas like this ! Early Industrial Britain was brutal.

[@fritzdrybeam]

@@ianreynolds8552 It still is.