Want to Be A Ripperoligist Then Start In London
A small museum dedicated to a series of ‘murders most foul’. It tells it’s world famous story even though it only has six tiny rooms to do it!
Maybe there are still enough clues to be found around the museum in which for you to solve this bewildering puzzle. Could you identify the perpetrator or perpetrators?
The scene of the second murder with other clues scattered around this room for a Ripperologist to check out at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
However, finding where the museum is certainly easier than cracking the crime. One that so many criminologists have pondered over in those many decades that have passed since the 1880’s
Within ten minute’s walk of the Tower of London a narrow terraced house contains on several floors’ artifacts and much material from the period. As it attempts to clarify the story around Jack The Ripper murders and the people’s it impacted.
An impression of a police station in late Victorian London at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
Located at No12 Cable Street the Victorian house lets you step back in time to 1888 when this greatest of unsolved crimes was committed.
JACK THE RIPPER MUSEUM WHITECHAPEL
Being almost in the centre of Whitechapel it is perfectly placed to also experience the guided walks around the area. These which set out from the museum most afternoons.
As well as the murder story itself it also helps to inform visitors about the wider social situation and life of women in London’s East End of that period. Although, often thought that the women were sex workers and from the poorest of society. However, they were not and researchers have found more information about some of the victims who’s homes were never in the East End at all.
Newspaper cutting featuring the worst murders at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
Each floor tells its own part of the story as you progress from one level to another. Displayed over five floors that are also all accessible by a lift.
The first floor depicts the situation as what was believed to be his or who knows maybe even her victim, has anyone thought of that? The second victim Catherine Eddowes was discovered by PC Watkins on September 30th 1888.
The handcuffs once owned by PC Watkins at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
The other floors illustrate what could be ‘The Ripper’s’ sitting room. Complete with a chart plotting his crimes. Medical instruments, books, knives and poison bottles abound.
Set On Five Floors With A Lift
A police station is to be found on the next floor. With police issue items from the period belonging to PC Watkins, like his hand cuffs, whistle and notebook. Rare items indeed!
The whistle once owned by PC Watkins at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
On the top floor this room sets out to show the conditions as to what a typical woman of that class and period may lived like. A metal bed, straw mattress no great comfort at all. Some basic provisions and a hint that gin. That would have been the preferred drink of choice in order to help subdue the chills and dull the overall poverty of the time.
Social situation as well as the murders are illustrated at the Jack The Ripper Museum, Cable Street, London.
Lastly down to the basement and to example of a Victorian mortuary. Which, is where the victims would have ended up and probably been photographed for police evidence.
Some of those photographs are on show as you tour the museum. So if you would find that upsetting perhaps miss this last room! However, it is realitively respectful and indeed it is quite difficult to tell the tragic story without such imagery.
The way a Victorian mortuary would have looked at the Jack The Ripper Museum, London.
The blood red painted exterior does give a hint that you have found the correct house in Cable Street. And with the helpful staff to assist and answer questions for you.
Was it a doctor, a lord or even a member of the royal family?
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Headline news at the Jack The Ripper Museum, Cable Street, London.
Even a suspect from the USA has been put forward. But without first checking out the area and the museum for clues yourself. For surely there can be no better place to start!
There are many people who have been hooked by this dastardly yarn and study it in some detail and are hence called a ‘Ripperologist’
