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The Ripper’s Family Pictures of Victorian respectability, brother and sister of Britain’s most notorious killer
The Ripper’s Family Pictures of Victorian respectability, brother and sister of Britain’s most notorious killer Last year, The MoS showed Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski was Ripper Photos of murderer’s family offer strongest clues yet to what he looked like Kosminski was a Polish Jew who had fled to London with his family The 19th…
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Man who solved the Jack the Ripper Mystery visits old site of Leavesden Hospital
Man who solved the Jack the Ripper Mystery visits old site of Leavesden Hospital The man who produced “the first bit of tangible information” to solve the mystery of who Jack the Ripper was visited the old site of Leavesden Hospital this week. Russell Edwards, author of Naming Jack the Ripper, was always led to…
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Russell Edwards Lectures at Wolverhampton University
Russell Edwards Lectures at Wolverhampton University Russell Edwards and Dr Jari Louhelainen, Senior Lecturer of Molecular Biology were honoured to be invited to present their story to Wolverhampton University last week. The story runs along-side the unvailing of Wolverhampton Civil and Historical Society unveiling their sponsored plaque for Catherine Eddowes who lived nearby at…
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The East End in the 1800s
The East End in the 1800s Except taken from ‘Naming Jack the Ripper’ by Russell Edwards It is just another phase: the East End has been through so many incarnations over the centuries. But the most interesting time to me is the 1880s, the era that spawned the Ripper Murders. In those times the neighbourhoods of Whitechapel and…
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Whitechapel in the 1880s
Whitechapel in the 1880s For centuries the East End had been a great melting pot, and until this massive flood of immigrants it had dealt well with incomers, but now it was stretched to breaking point, and anyone who could afford to move away did, leaving a population who were, by and large, scraping by. Survival was the key,…
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Bid to trace Jack the Ripper victims family links in Shropshire
Bid to trace Jack the Ripper victims family links in Shropshire The man who claims to have identified the real name of Jack The Ripper has visited Shropshire as part of his research into one of the killer’s victims. Jack The Ripper killed at least five women in the East End of London during the “autumn…
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The History of Leavesden Asylum
The History of Leavesden Asylum The foundation stone for Leavesden Asylum was laid on 31st October 1868 by the Chairman of the Management Committee, William Henry Wyatt, J.P. The first patients were not admitted until 9th October 1870, the same date as the opening of Caterham Asylum. Both Asylums were built and run by…
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Aaron Kosminski Admission to Leavesden Asylum
Aaron Kosminski Admission to Leavesden Asylum Aaron Kosminski was registered at Leavesden Asylum Hospital on the 19th April 1894. The following are the details of his admission; Registered No. Of Admission: 7367 Name: Kozminksi Aaron Date of Admission: 19th April 1894 Age: 29 Parish: Mile End Married, Single, or Widowed: left blank Previous Occupation:…
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Aaron Kosminski and Colney Hatch Asylum
Aaron Kosminski and Colney Hatch Asylum A week before the 7th February 1891, Aaron Kosminski was sent to Mile End Workhouse shortly after the attack on his own sister with a knife. He was then sent to Colney Hatch Asylum suffering with a form of disorder diagnosed at the time known as mania. No member…
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Get to know Mary Ann Nichols
Get to know Mary Ann Nichols The first, who is formally acknowledged as being one of the Jack the Ripper’s victims, was a woman by the name of Mary Ann Nichols commonly known as, “Polly Nichols”. She was regarded as an unfortunate, a prostitute, who lived in the Whitechapel area. William Nichols, lived in…