JACK THE RIPPER LOCATIONS : THEN AND NOW
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- I guide exclusively for Discovery Tours, the highest-rated Jack the Ripper tour company on Trip Advisor (www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com). Inspired by my book 'The London Of Jack The Ripper Then And Now' and the overlay work of Andrew Firth in 'Ripperland', I thought this worth doing. NB: All post 1938 images are under copyright.
Before commenting, please read the following: All comments on this video are held pending review. Racist crap gets your post deleted and you get blocked from my channel. I am fed up with hate posts. Secondly, I don't need to be told a hundred times that not using images from 1888 does not make the video 'Then'. The ONLY extant photo of one of the murder sites from that time is the outside of 13 Millers Court, a spot entirely inaccessible today. Everything else from 1888 is a rough newspaper drawing.
When I moved to London in 1975 one of the first things I did was visit the Ripper murder sites on foot.
I remember I managed to choose a particularly suitable evening for the adventure; it was very dark, damp and misty. The sort of night which films about the Ripper always seem to portray!
By then many of the sites had totally changed. But I can vividly recall the effect walking into Mitre Square had on me. I approached it through the covered passageway directly opposite the murder site and immediately felt I'd been transported back to 1888. The Mitre Square of 1888 was essentially still there; the tall warehouse buildings round most of it....and the incredible feeling of gloom and melancholy. The hairs on my neck literally stood on end.
I spent about half an hour just walking round the square....despite the feeling I had I didn't really want to leave. In all that time I didn't see another soul; if there had been a 1975 Ripper there at that moment I simply wouldn't have had any help.
It wasn't until the early 90's, when I started working in the City, that I visited the square again and by then it had changed totally beyond recognition. I felt very sad about that in a way but you can't stand in the way of progress!
I just feel so glad that I saw and felt what the real Mitre Square of Ripper times was like.
+fredmciverslovechild Thanks for share.
If you do the same route today at night you will never make it alive !!
+Chris Parkhurst We visited the area a few years back for a video documentary. Although the area is vibrant, it is still frequented by pond life.
+fredmciverslovechild When I went to London, I sat in Mitre Square once late at night, all by myself, on the same bench like the guy you see on the video, for a good hour. I recall an eerie feeling being there, a quietness, in an otherwise noisy part of London.
fredmciverslovechild: I did the same as you! But a few years earlier, in early 1968. At that time, Buck's Row (then called Durward Street) was still exactly as it looked in the 1880s, and I felt the same as you did about Mitre Square (which seems to have been the last site of all to have been left relatively untouched).
As I walked the length of Flower and Dean Street; those tall gaunt Peabody flats lining it and shutting out so much of the daylight still gave off a sense of the sinister despite not being of Ripper-era vintage.
Alas Berner Street was already transformed beyond recognition, likewise the part of Hanbury Street surrounding no29. And Dorset Street (afterwards called Duval Street) had been wiped off the map altogether, its site between White's Row and Brushfield Street completely covered by a parking building.
My Nan, who died in the early sixties aged nearly ninety, was born & bred in Whitechapel and would tell of the time of the murders - her Dad nailed all the windows shut and barricaded the door at night in an effort to ease the fears of my Great-Grandmother - great technique - thanks for posting
Wow, have you any more stories that she would have passed down?
@@davidmcintyre7908 Only other was the Chaplin story - how my Great Grandmother along with a few other neighbours would feed and shelter Charlie, as his mother - as my Nan would say - was not all there, and he was locked out and often homeless as a child. Always made me realise from her stories how being an Empire and the richest country on the planet at that time delivered nothing to what is now called the underclass.
@@avs4365 Yes it was BECAUSE OF the working classes, we were the most powerful nation on Earth, but they got very little out of it sadly.
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@@avs4365 these stories passed down through the generations are great and really bring things to life :-)
Imagine hundreds of Brits passing by such infamous places not the slightest bit aware of what happened. There should be plaques honoring each of these lives.
Oh I’m sure the people living there are well aware from all the tours.
Did you know that some black guy was murdered on cherry street in downtown witchataw, Kansas in 1957? No? Why not?
Imagine foreigners passing by shouting their own language and not giving a crap about the history....
@@arminiusofgermania Who cares? lol
@@tiffanylove6713 exactly.
Its a shame so many landmarks were changed. Even the park or so it looks like. They should have built some sort of memorial to these women.
The old buildings even in their dilapidated state looked better than the ones that replaced them.
es it's amazing how much cleaner everywhere looks now compared to the shithole it must have been back then. Those poor Cockneys, living in slums. Makes you realise how much better off we re now., doesn't it?
The end; that's actually the same tree... *mind blown*
Umadbro?! AHA Ikr😄 that's what I said
me too!
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I think it's amazing that these buildings can stay serviceable and still visible after hundreds of years but yet NFL teams Major League Baseball teams professional basketball and professional hockey teams we'll leave the city if the arena is more than 10 years old ridiculous such a waste of money
@@Davidjon1946 not the same at all. Sports teams have to meet the demands of growing the product and upgrading service quality.
Most people walking past these locations in this video are probably unaware that theyve just walked past a jack the ripper murder scene ....ive always had a fascination with jack the ripper ...excellent video truely welldone !
My guess is, that those that live, and especially grew up in Whitechapel, are probably well aware of the murder locations. Also factoring in tourists, at these locations, as well.
Especially the guy who sat on the bench right where Catherine Eddowes was murdered.
Millions of people around the world walk past of a place which has been site of murder or something like that in the history.
Most of them are Bengali's. Doubt they'd care or even be interested.
Sad that we don't do a better job of preserving our history.
Yeah , everything has been demolished . That's a shame . They shouldn't have demolished the buildings .
Don't forget most of that east end architecture was lost in the blitz during WW2.
I always think that.
echelon2k8 --- There are plenty of institutions, charities and historical research offices that preserve our history, but some buildings just needed to be torn down. Besides, who the hell is going to preserve run down buildings just because they were part of a famous series of murders...ffs.
Whose history? The history of sick and brutal beyond brutal beasts also called "serial killers"? Or do you talk about the probably even more interesting history of the victims who were mostly undereducated and poverty-stricken women in their late forties, toothless, dirty, divorced who spent their lives in "waterholes" among the members of the lowest working class. Are we talking about getting to know all about the history of chanceless and hopeless individuals, fallen ladies, whose descendants would surely be tremendously pleased by an indept historical research for the purpose of shedding light on such glorious beings?
Old London has been swept aside for corporate profit from foreign investors. They couldn't care less about our history or the value that it has, all they want are bland and ugly anonymous eyesores erected in place of characterful historic buildings.
Im from America and feel the same as you.So much history over there in london. Would love to go one day.: )
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Well you had better get over here soon or it will all be gone under a pile of Starbucks and McDonalds.
+canturgan Oh yes, the slums and tenements were so full of character,
GORDON BENNETT Yes they were, and the ones that are left standing are now worth millions.
Cities are living organisms. When would you have liked London to have stopped developing? The Tudor era perhaps? What about the the early medieval period? Or how about pre Roman when London was a Celtic fort? There are still plenty of historical buildings in London, don't worry.
A few years ago we conducted a Paranormal Investigation of the murder sites and this video was a great help to us.
Thank you.
All I see is amazing beautiful buildings gone replaced with shit
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to
And Muslims
Exactly I'll never waist a trip on London that I long time planned to not no more
cultural marxism. Destroy our roots and identity by migration, islamisation, and left madness and marxism and NEW architecture that looks the same in france and uk and holland and so on.... They want to destroy our identity and feeling that we are people from England. We need to be people of 1 world.
Kane - you want to see how Bradford West Yorkshire UK has been ruined by the demolition of beautiful Victorian buildings.
Atmospheric Victorian brick buildings fading out to plastic rubbish bins and double yellow lines, the eyesores of our world.
And in 100 years time, people will be looking at whatever they have on their streets and waxing lyrical about the olden days with their quaint plastic cones and vibrant yellow lines to stop those fascinatingly romantic looking automobiles from parking.
Boy frog, I doubt it
The modern buildings look like crap.
Al C lol I agree. The old buildings from these poor areas of the city are 100 times nicer than what replaced them.
There's something wrong that we can't at least build new buildings as well as the cheapest old buildings
They really do
I agree, London looked nicee back then.
The Victorian slum dwellers probably thought the same of the cold, damp, rat infested shit holes they lived in.
oh fuck off
This is arguably the best "then and now" video of the murder sites. No jabbering on and on and quick edit shots here. Just a slower paced video that allow the viewer to take in and comprehend the changes at a nice pace. Thank you!
Why did it look so much better years ago..
Just think, that tree in Itchy Park is a living witness to a Ripper murder. If only they could talk.
Ken Scaletta They talk to me. So do the squirrels but not as much.
Ken Scaletta, trees do talk: The case of Fred Grabbe. In 1981, his wife Charlotte disappeared; three years later, police charged him with murder. His girlfriend testified against him in court, claiming that they burned his wife's body beneath a maple tree. Two scientists were able to verify her story, producing physical evidence from the tree to back up her claim. See Forensic Files episode:
Root of All Evil: th-cam.com/video/s76V6nqTGxg/w-d-xo.html
Ken Scaletta, Now that is an intriguing thought.
They don't talk..... but they do Bark!! ;)
This is a work of art, especially to a Ripperologist. How anyone could give it a thumbs down speaks volumes about them.
The contrast in the difference within the locations is remarkable but done so well here with the transgression.
I go down to London and photograph locations and only pockets of old London are left unless they are famous state buildings.
There is a feeling of poverty years ago but it had character and mystery now we have endless road markings, bollards a plethora of road signs Graffiti, horrible modern buildings scaffolding and cordoned off areas and endless advertising.
It really is awful now but we just accept it.
Well one thing I learned is London's great at removing cool old buildings and erecting bland concrete blocks in their place.
The Germans helped.
Yep.
@@Trigormike the Londoners didn't have to help make it worse
Such a shame
@@Trigormike After the sixties?
RIP Mary Jeanette Kelly died today 130 years ago :( x
May I , please , ask you to consider what Melvyn Fairclough writes , in ' The Ripper and the Royals ' , about Mary Kelly ? (For those who don't want to know , but should prefer to read it , don't read on , because I'm about to write it ): it's written that it wasn't Mary Kelly at all , whom the Ripper murdered , but a friend , whom she'd let stay there. Kelly went to Canada. That's why the Ripper murders stopped : they , yes " " They " , ( not one man , but three ) , thought they'd finally got her. But , for the explanation to THAT , others shall want to read the book , as The Queen has done. Thank you.
rias And she was buried In Leytonstone Catholic Cemetery.The big cross above her grave used to glow at night so it was removed in the 50s there were many local witnesses to this including my Grandmother.
He spunked on her.
damn
Those pictures of her body are horrific.
I'm glad 'The Jack the Ripper' pub reverted to its earlier name of 'The Ten Bells'. That was a seriously crass name to give a pub.
I prefer how they used to look to how they look now
I don't think many would disagree. Have a look at my updated 2021 version and be even more disappointed!
@@GuildfordGhost I'll do thst right now thanks
@@GuildfordGhost been looking through your vids a few mins it would be quicker if you could share a link lol Great to see you have some spike milligan vids I love him saw him live not long before he died
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I absolutely adore old architecture aswell. But we should remember that most of those buildings were slums that were often crudely-built and very unhealthy to live in. Most of them didnt have running water, electricity or any of the things we take for granted today, and often contained harmful materials like asbestos and rotting wood
Sure, sometimes it can be a bit depressing to see what used to be. But Jack the Ripper's biggest contribution to world history was the attention that he brought to the dire, unbearable lives of the poor in the East End. Thanks not in small part to the publicity brought on by the murders, the crumbling slums were pulled down and replaced with much healthier housing that made many people's lives healthier and better. Let that be a nice side note
Really interesting video. Undoubtedly, many of these locations were dirty, grimy, smelly hovels back in the late Victorian period, but I can't help feel they *looked* so much nicer than they do today!
They certainly had more character. However the Blitz saw an end to many of these places (including modern "progress".) And by war's end, they're pulled down and eventually redeveloped.
After the ear, there were thousands upon thousands of people with no home. Large parts of London were rubble. The priority was to get as many people as possible into new, safe and clean homes as possible, and those homes needed to be built quickly and cheaply. As I'm sure you'll agree, Aesthetics wasn't particularly a priority in those circumstances.
Great video.
I certainly prefer the scenes before,compared to what they became.
Great job👍
Yes it's amazing how much cleaner everywhere looks now compared to the shithole it must have been back then. Those poor Cockneys, living in slums. Makes you realise how much better off we re now., doesn't it?
There are numerous comments here about old London having been swept away by the developers. That's true up to a point, but it's worth bearing in mind that much of the Ripper's East End was destroyed during the Blitz, and a lot of other historic buildings were demolished in the 1960s. The redevelopment of the last couple of decades really isn't responsible for eliminating so many of the traces of the Ripper's London.
dunebasher1971 brutalist/postmodern architects have done more damage to our country than the Luftwaffe ever did
Well put! I was going to make the same point.
Thank you. I had an idea most spots were probably bombed out. You confirmed that.
You can get a bit of a feel if you walk through Artillery Row (you can get to it from opposite Liverpool Street Station). The one bit of Ripper stuff still there is The Ten Bells Pub next to Christ Church, which is the Church with the big columns out the the front that played a major part in From Hell.
I went on a Ripper tour last year, it was fascinating walking around Whitechapel.
We had to walk back to our rented apartment in the dark after it. Was very spooky!
The ladies will live on in history. I would prefer the days of horse and cart than today's cars and motorway's
Agreed
Well I can’t help thinking the areas were better BEFORE than after.
Yeah, poverty, filth, and decay are so much better. Right.
@@evansquilt He means the architecture, and he's right!
@@evansquilt that's why he says BEFORE.
Love the way the overlays are done!
Where's the prostitutes ?
The tree in "Itchy Park" lives on! I couldn't believe it.
They've murdered these places.
Nice overlay work. Thanks for posting.
London has changed significantly since even the 1960's , specifically the tall skyline. In my youth the tallest thing was the ''post office tower'' and St Pauls Cathedral..the murky fogs had almost gone, and the roads were far emptier of cars, as people generally were poorer, and used public transport. I miss the old London, simply because it was a lot more atmospheric, gritty and less 'polished' and less gentrified. 80 years earlier, it would have been a fascinating place..
Yeah it was great , poverty and deprivation on every corner , hunger was ever present , not to mention the squalor , great time to be alive really !
I can't stand what london has become. Sanitised, safe, clean and nothing but a playground for the rich. There is no culture anymore
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Oakleaf700 oh man I’m with you!!! Over populated and crazy traffic I lived in east London in 1997 now I’m in north London and from hampstead heath you can se the damage they did ...looks like Dubai ... I loved my Victorian looking London ... the scary thing is all this building work to wash mafia money is so bad for the environment ....
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@@deanodog3667 and, you missed out JaaaaaKK, he's behind you
All replaced by ugly buildings
Blame Hitler and the blitz for bombing the industrial east end for causing them to build cost effective alternatives
These were still ‘slums’ back in the day and not as pretty as they may appear out of context, but I do agree with you, a lot of the buildings in London were destroyed in the blitz during WWII and replaced with the concrete architecture that came after. Fortunately, there’s still hundreds of historic and picturesque buildings still in place there and it’s a gorgeous city to explore.
whew! I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who finds these locations still depressing as fuck. I even made a similar comment minutes ago and had a feeling that I was too negativistic in that comment, but now I'm feeling relieved seeing as you (and probably other people, as well) share in my sentiment :)
I just love how you did this,i come back every few years to watch it over again
+Cynthia Caldwell Likewise!
+cogidubnus1953 me too
Love that the tree is still there in Itchy Park :)
The tree bears witness to all 🌳
I know all the old buildings were derelict and rundown , but all I notice is the character of those old buildings in comparrison to the architect nowadays.
I'm sure the people who loved in then would have traded basic sanitation, safety and less overcrowding for "character"
What have they done to london. It looks awful now
It didn't look too good back then!
its always been a shithole...interesting and historical but still a shithole
Still lots of nice areas in London. Germans destroyed a fair bit its worth remembering.
@@thejudge-kv2jk Fair point. I just posted about how ugly the new buildings are, but forgot to take into consideration the destruction the bombing during WW2 may have caused to some areas.
These were still ‘slums’ back in the day and not as pretty as they may appear out of context, not to mention that a lot of the buildings in London were destroyed in the blitz during WWII and later rebuilt with the concrete architecture that came after. Fortunately, there’s still hundreds of historic and picturesque buildings still in place there and it’s a gorgeous city to explore.
Fascinating and really eerie! It’s crazy knowing that some people walking past some of these locations now won’t have a clue of its dark history. Well put together 👌🏼
that is exactly what i was thinking when i was watching this...
Imagine going to that car park knowing something really gruesome happened more than 100 years ago on that very spot !
Imagine going to a school where a woman was brutally killed in that same playground area
I feel that way about much of London. There is amazing history almost literally everywhere. After a while, one must stop thinking about it or be crushed by its weight.
Something really gruesome happend everywhere ,to be honest .Thats all gone now ,like it never existed .except for photos .Its called progress , i think . Old London town ,changed beyond belief ,not aĺl for the better .Its a biģger crap ole now than it was then 👎💩🤕
Danielle Johnson Gruesome things have no doubt happened all over the place and you'd never know it.
Something infinitely more gruesome happens every millisecond in every abattoir and many a farm yard, as well as many fields and forests and water bodies, and literally everywhere in exotic shitholes, perpetrated by filth infinitely more cowardly yet evil than Jack the Ripper.
It's interesting seeing people walking about the murder sights, just doing their day to day thing. They're probably not aware of what went on there all those years ago. Also, I noticed in the last picture that some of the trees are still there today. Just imagine, jack the ripper may have lurked behind them whilst waiting for his victim.
So imagine that Annie's murder scene is now a Car Park?
London is probably more scarey now than it was then.
night owl --- Nonsense, you're living in the safest age ever.
night owl.....agreed 100%. That scary looking thing in black at 2:08. Is it an Alien creature from deep inside a distant Galaxy in the Universe ??
Not true.
That's one of the most stupid comments imaginable.
It's all so very sad to think of those poor women who lost their lives, because of one evil person being JR.
and London isint the same now, our history doesn't have the same values. or respect .
I agree. I tend to believe the victims' should have been given better graves.
Found the slow transformation sssssssssso interesting! Of how they build around/over things so much. They would still recognize many places.
the work of the so called developers have taken the soul out of east london
East London actually had a soul? Ok...
This is so cool. Sad to see some of the architectural changes though.
I really like the sound effect overlays.
Anna Ferrara bnb yes, clever how it goes from Victorian to modern day
I love this. the fade-in effect is excellent. Very strange and beauitiful.
RIGHT!!! I love the way this video was done.
Excellent job and really interesting to see what's left and what's not.
I hate how it's all been gentrified. I prefer the grim ambience of the past.
My grandfather lived there, he was born in 1876: all his family had lived there for centuries, one, George Alder was baptised in the little chapel attached to Newgate prison!
My grandfather worked at SeaWorld
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Thank you. May all the victims rest in peace. They didn't deserve to die the way they did.
Such change. I thought London would keep their old buildings. You know, for historical preservation. Like what we have here in the French Quarter.
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The Blitz ruined much of the East End of London. Don't forget that..
Much of the east end of London where these murders took place was destroyed or seriously damaged during WWII by German bombing (the 'blitz' - 1940-1941; and later by V2 rockets), during which thousands of innocent civilians were killed. Nevertheless, London as a whole still has more historic buildings than most cities in the world. Today, the centre of London is dominated by late 17th century churches, Georgian (1714-1830), and Victorian architecture (1837-1901). Pretty much all of those historic buildings are 'listed' (i.e., protected, as they are of special architectural or historic interest, or considered to be of national importance).
Rahmstation the blitz destroyed most of the old buildings
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Fellow new orleanian😃
Same, as a child I loved watching movies set in Victorian London
I thought since our city preserved it's history London probably did the same
Then I see modern London and it's bleak and boring( most parts)
I guess during ww2 lots of the historic architecture was destroyed and London's leaders wanted to modernize.
Very interesting to see London, it is so sad to what's happening now.
In this day and age, being a western capital city, wealth pours in and the rich want to expand upon it, usually at the expense of everything and everybody else.
What are you on about?
What do you mean, what's happening now? London in Victorian days was a filthy, disease ridden hell hole with huge poverty. I'm glad those days have gone.
Amazing job ! Thank you very much for uploading it !
A very remarkable video and as a professional photographer I suspect requiring a great deal of work in lining up camera positions and lens focal lengths to keep perspectives correct. Well done.
Excellent work. This was fascinating to watch. Loved the way you morphed the images together. Thank you for uploading.
5:43 All of them looking at the camera, all of them had there little lives to live, all had loved ones, had their own views on who the Jack the Ripper was, little kids just about to start their lives, all standing in that little spot..and in a flash...gone, like they never existed.
Just to be seen on the net over a 100 years later by a stranger looking up shit on Jack the Ripper on the net.
Life is sooo......can't even think of the word to describe how I feel lol
is it just me or do ALL of these locations still look as depressing as back then? I wouldn't want to live / work in any of the places even if there were no crimes in them in the past. Such depressing locations....
It’s no longer a bad area. I’ve walked around there after midnight, tracking down all of the locations on my own, and had a good time.
very cool. same tree!
cant get enough of this , really enjoy ... be nice to see an updated version .
I wish you would do more things like this. Dealing with the macabre that is. You have a knack for it.
I love the gradual transition from old to new! Very interesting. Thank you for your work;)
I hate how everything has been gentrified!
Enjoyed this immensely. Thank you!
London’s murder record is worse now than then.
It's really not
The tree at 6.00 on the left side is still there, so he has seen the murder...
Such a shame most of the buildings are gone...
War and slum clearance.
The overlays are so much better than before and after pictures. Great job.
Should have kept old Whitechapel intact and preserved. Could have renamed it Ripperville and been a huge tourist attraction. Make a Ripper-world themed vacation spot with everyone in Victorian dress and an actual knife-wielding fiend coming out at night and taking out an unlucky thrill-seeker. Have some tourists play the role of detective and try to solve the case. The winner would get something like meeting the Queen or getting free dibs at the Ripperville breakfast buffet .
Unfortunately we had a war in between and many places in London were destroyed. Others were torn down due to slum clearance. Houses ended up not fit for human habitation.
You have a very vivid imagination..
That would be amazing 😀👍👍
Look, it was a godawful place !
There is a documentary called The London Nobody Knows made around 1967 in which James Mason goes round the old town. You can see footage of him going into the corridor from Hanbury Street into the back garden where Annie Chapman was found. This still could have been lifted from that doc. it's 2-32 on this footage
+martynh Hi. The still is not from the famous documentary. It's a colourised photograph from the 1960s - not sure of the source but possibly Robin Odell. Funny you should mention the film right now - keep an eye on my channel over the next week or so. I have a new upload coming!
+martynh Thanks. I've put that on my watchlist at the Internet Movie Database.
The parking garage on Hanbury Street is now gone.
i walked past the garage today?
Maybe the vid will be updated in time. Very impressive film, has anyone seen the Time Machine by HG Wells. very impressive!
Which one? There are 2 Time Machine films, both made years apart.
Little do people know as they are walkin along their daily lives they are actually walkin through the exact spot which bore some historical brutality....
damo 11 in London nowadays it doesn’t need to be past crimes. Stab city . The ripper would be proud.
Maybe they did know
I live near where a man was murdered in the street about ten years ago. After a while you just walk past the spot without noticing.
Those of us who live near the sites are fully aware of their history. I live in what was once Berner Street - it now has a new name - the road in which Elizabeth Stride was murdered. I live in a development of flats (apartments) not far from the school which now sits on the exact site. You can't fail to know because of all the tours that go on!
Great video love the way it slowly fades to the before and after. I have always been interested in jack the ripper so many thanks.
⚘*RIP* ⚘
Martha Tabram, Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddows, Mary Jane Kelly and all the other women who lost their lives during the Whitechapel murders.
Excellent footage. Shame to see how things change and its even more sad that the people walking around these areas now, don't even realise the history significance.
They don't care, they just graffiti it and litter and build buildings to benefit their own....
Yeah, the tree is stunning. Could tell you a thing or two for sure.. Great video, thanks.
What a great "then & now" presentation⚠️ Was the best I've seen so far. The way the picture slowly changes to the present time allows the viewer to focus on the spot pretty much where the slain body would have been! KUDOS.
Amazing. I love history and this makes it come alive.
I went looking for these locations back in 1978. I was working in the City and was then permanently located near Mitre Square. Whitechapel then was a horrible place, full of homeless drunks who resided at Itchy Park and cashed their Giro's in the post office below. I remember seeing one person with meths and milk collapsed in the subway Nothing seems to have changed since and it wouldn't surprise me another string of murders happen there.
The area is famous for another murderous reason, the Houndsditch killings and the siege of Sidney street. Then the Nazis bombed the area.
Not a happy place
Excellent vid, & for those interested, the 60s docu 'The London Nobody Knows' (fronted by James Mason) will appeal.
The tree in Itchy Park saw it all.
Yet has always declined requests to be interviewed on the matter.
Yeah R.I.P London
The Eddowes spot shook me. There is park bench on the spot now and some guy sat on it in the video. I wonder if he knew that a woman was evicerated on that spot. The original spot was so gloomy.
Hollywood yes, I did the ripper walk and I could just see Catherine Eddowes walk through down a passageway and then reappear with a man and the rest. That part of the walk was very real.
He didn't as she was in the corner.
Hollywood I believe the flowerbed is a memoral to her I'm not sure through
He'd be stalking Love Island nowadays.
2,13min Dang i near jumped out of my skin when a sinister woman covered and veiled in black went by
michele piteo that's a Muslim women
Er yes that would be a Muslim woman.
A very common sight in London now !
Yea that's how they dress but you should know that 🤔
michele piteo --- More racists... Surprise, surprise...
A superbly atmospheric piece of work; the slow blending of the photo image with the video picture is great. Thanks so much !
These locations are pretty much whitechapel London.. if any tourists want to know.. Modern london now is nothing like the victorian days ! (as you can see) we have lost some of those lovely" victorian stock" brick structures . Anyone wanting to build with victorian stock bricks, Ebay sell them..ive heard there is a large amount of reclaimed bricks form these knockdowns in the 1980s, 90s.. 00s..
Too many brown faces now :(
When they make films now set in Victorian London, it is usually a set or abroad, as most of the original buildings have long gone.
c rus you can buy them made new now in metric or imperial sizes
It was better before
MegaNiko49 agreed, history gone
Well you can blame all the nazis for destroying London and her Victorian architecture for their little “Aryan cause”
Yes it's amazing how much cleaner everywhere looks now compared to the shithole it must have been back then. Those poor Cockneys, living in slums. Makes you realise how much better off we re now., doesn't it?
@@pakistanidalek You would say that....bet you love the all the squiggles under all the street signs in whitechapel now.
I think Jack must have been a very ordinary looking man-nothing to ''frighten the horses''..had he looked like an out and out lunatic [which he clearly was] he would have been noticed by the people in the area- maybe he was capable of ''switching'' from being apparrently normal, and incognito, to murderous. I don't feel he would have been dressed in smart clothing, as such a cove would have been noticed. People in those streets were ''sharp'', and quite perceptive..they had ''street smarts''..someone who looked ill at ease or out of place would have been picked up on. [??] edit : a ''posh'' person would be like a beacon in those deprived areas..whoever Jack was, he was capable of mingling with and not arousing suspicion amongst the locals.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video, very well executed transitions. Must have taken an incredible amount of patience...Thank you.
It's very sad actually how life goes on and things change...very interesting video
Coral Bitten
what did you expect?
This is one of the best things on TH-cam. Having been on many Ripper walks I have to say this shows things in a new light. I tip my Top Hat to you and and thanks for taking the time to make it.
London , the city of my birth , is a magical place , in the truest sense of the word . Buidings come and go , people are born and die , but the spirit of London lives on as it has for over 2000 years .
Much of these old streets are far better looking than what we have now. so glad old town in edinburgh haven't demolished anything significant , still atmospheric and old.
Anyone looking for Dorset Street on Google Maps, I can save you the trouble of trying to find it... it doesn't exist anymore. The street, carpark etc has been completely eliminated and replace by a huge office building. Search for 95 Commercial St, Spitalfields, London and that's it.
Wonder who the lucky person is, that scored the desk in the same place where Mary Jane Kelly was found!
Thanks for the info, the site is now totally different and got confused trying to figure out the spot, the good thing is that the new office block has a central court in the middle of the building where one can better appreciate the murder site, city of London authorities should pay more respect and at least add a commemorative plaque right on the spot so one can at least lay flowers or something.
1:40 Proof that Jack the Ripper was a time traveller! From the left of the screen, a masked figure dressed in black manifests into our reality. Is this Jack the Ripper?
No it is a Muslim lady wearing a niqab.
Bruh it's a Muslim
It’s a woman wearing a burqa 🤦🏼♀️
Same tree in the last one. Still standing.
Well, well, well done! Loved it from the background noises added to the way the past blends to the future.
This is fascinating work.