Durward Street August 2021 - A Jack The Ripper Murder Site.

Still fully believe cross aka letchmere was the ripper

I remember u pointing out Essex Wharf in 1988, b nice if like Mitre Square they have something up 2 remember Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols.

659 million 😱. It should have had been made of gold & marble for that price 😂

I know it can't be done for every crime and every victim, but something of such historical significance I feel deserves some sort of plaque.

Another interesting video. No sensationalism - just based on historical facts.

Thank you so much, definitely different from what it looked like when I was there but so glad the board school is a listed building so at least they can't demolish it like so many other ripper sites.

Thanks for the update on the Street. I love how you incorporated all the photos from the past too. Very interesting!

Excellent. Thanks for your efforts not just with this fresh update, but every upload you've made 🙏

So a ghost could appear in the station--a troubled ghost. Why don't you do what I did in Inverary jail. Go to each spot of the murders and say hello on your mobile phone on sound record and look a little later to see if the phone has picked up a voice?

An addictive series, thank you for all your hard work.

Great video! Really enjoyed the view of the new station😀

Well isn't that jolly. Another short cut (excuse the pun) for Jacky boy. I remember Essex Wharf. They were snoring so loud I nearly stopped my work to shut them up. But I'm a kindly man with friends everywhere so I let them be. Now the nights are drawing in I feel it's time for my fancies. Just need to frighten off a few pimps and I'll be set. Haven't sharpened my knife for a long time and that's just not right. Have to go now. Some people need to see me and some people don't. It's just the way I am.

yours eventually

JTR

P.S They say I'm a time traveller now !

Nice new station and so well filmed and narrated. I hope the site of Mary Nichols death doesn’t change any more.

I actually live near Whitechapel so when I visit there I shall visit Durwood street. Last time when I visited there were road works in Durwood street.

Your narration is simply superb, every video I have watched adds to that feeling of enticement. I keep looking out for more, this one even had old footage from your earlier tours in 89, which are my favorite segments. I hope you will create a video based on that footage some day, since the locations no longer look anything like that. I would love to see a narrated video on your old tour footage, and hear a description of how the locations have changed. Although Buck's row/Durward street looked like it would be the location of a grisly murder even in 89. Thank you for the video, and take care!

As i have written before , this is the street i used every day as a short cut between exiting Whitechapel Station and my school in vallance Road , between the years 1963 and 1968 . Those small houses still existed , as did Essex Wharf and Kearley And Tonge s Warehouse , the big brother , to the one in Mitre Square . As two of the victims were found , literally in the shadows of these warehouses could there be a connection ?

It does look like the set of a Christopher Lambert movie.

Richard, they should put a plaque there for her. And too bad everything today has to look ultra modern and so sterile. They could have incorporated some old 19th century design into it.

Thank you for everything you do.

If it is now possible to identify the spot where Mary was found, is there any way a memorial plaque can be laid?

Well, good to see the construction mess is cleared up. Sad to see the brick wall from the Boarding School no longer standing to the east. Your last video in the area showed it had been obliterated by the new terminal facing. Although, in the view you show here, from the School building in that easterly direction, it looks like a few feet of it still stands before the new terminal structure begins. Also, east of the terminal, the stretch of old wall in the southward direction looks to be intact still. I don't know that it is original to the JTR period as the now-lost perpendicular wall was (I believe), but it seems to have been there for a long time. I hope that doesn't change, even though it looks like more construction is ahead at that "yard" area.

Well, thank you again, Mr. Jones, for updating us on Durward Street with another splendid video production!

I think a plaque for Mary Nichols would be appropriate at the Whitechapel station entrance.

At least we still have this street unlike some of the other sites that have been obliterated such as Dorset Street...

Great stuff. I first went there in 1988 when it was indeed derelict as you say. I took my girlfriend there two years ago. Not been back since. When will they get rid of the ugly looking barriers? It would also be nice if they erected some kind of memorial or plaque to the left of the station entrance.
Cheers.

A beautiful station indeed! I hope there's a historical society that can put up some kind of signage to mark the spot where Mary met her unfortunate demise. Joanne from Singapore ❤️

Thanks for including the old footage. Not seen what Essex Wharf looked like.

I love these videos!

I LOVE how they used the original facade in that one entry. That looked really cool to me. Love Victorian/ Edwardian buildings! That’s all “historical” buildings we have here in the USA really. Usually built in our “gilded age” (1870-1910 roughly) here, where after our civil war, there was a dramatic increase in wages.

It certainly has changed for the better. Looks great now

£110m to over £600m? Only ever in the Public Sector, folks 👍

I love this series of films - informative and insightful instead of relying on lurid speculation. The narrator has a captivating voice too (reminds me a little of the voice of the poet Roger McGough).

I like the video but oh, those soulless buildings!

Richard, here's a bizarre thing. I've been attempting to answer your left or right handed question on your poll that you just posted, but my comments do not post. No one else's either, if they have also attempted to vote.

Blimey they've spruced up Durward Street

Thank you.

There should be fliers on the walls telling the history of the Area

Just out of curiosity when was Essex wharf demolished? I remember visiting in 1988 but when I next visited in 1992 it had gone. Also when did they shut off Winthrop St and the bridge that crossed the rail to get through Wood's buildings? Is that small alleyway still there as the entrance on Whitechapel high street is blocked off?

Good little clip and some nice shots of Essex wharf well done once again 👏👏👏 keep up the good work

Superb update video - albeit I much preferred the character and 'Old World Charm' of the previous Whitechapel Station; rather than this sterile-looking, overpriced monstrosity.

Fascinating. Do you have a lot of the old footage from the 1980s? Seems like an important historical record given the changes since then.

Thank you so much for responding to my inquiry! I know we have to "progress" , but I really don't like these new modern changes. I guess I'm a nostalgist till the end with most things. I like to pretend that little section of brick wall is just covered over and not removed, as I could deal with that easier. lol Thanks for another fascinating video! Cheers from Canada! : )

Charles Cross? Or Charles Lechmere?

lets see a plaque put up on the station wall as a tribute to mary nichols,as i stated before lets see a plaque in tribute to all the victims of jack the ripper.rip.jpj

Just about made it through all your videos!

What is the purpose of those ugly orange and white barriers? Surely they don't plan to leave them in place along there like that......do they?

I went from Canonbury to Whitechapel on the overground 2 or 3 years ago, I can't remember seeing the construction work going on.

Absolutely Amazing. Thank You So Much. Such History cannot be Forgotten. That Devil Lechmere once stole lives from that very spot 😞 Prayers for Them Forever

What facinates me in particular is the evolution of the various sites involved in this compelling story, and it wasn't untill recently that it struck me that it continues to change to this very day. Juding by photos taken at various times in history it seems as though the carters' yard gained a roller shutter at some point, eventually becaming a car garage much later on. The roof of which having been extended at least a couple of times with various entrance doors over the years. The world moves on and time waits for no man! Any further information and/or advice is most welcome...

why in gods name didn't anyone photograph the interiors and grounds before being demolished! Such a waste.