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Adventures Of The Adventurers' Club: 1890)
Came across this book today.
A collection of adventure stories, one of which is about jtr. Apparently it was reprinted in The Big Book Of Jack The Ripper Stories (2016).
The relevant story, "In The Slaughter-Yard," was set in the fictional knacker's... -
Is that Wess's address or the address of Federation of East London Labour Unions? Didn't he live in the Brady Street buildings of Buck's Row after Mrs Stride's murder?
Although it was a house....Leave a comment:
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This new MacNeil is almost certainly the right man. The "letter" articles talk about him giving sermons at the "tabernacle".
Ross-shire Journal - Friday 14 December 1888...Leave a comment:
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I've done some checking and it seems the Australian John MacNeil was here in Melbourne in 1889, so probably not the right man. I've found another Rev John MacNeil who seems to be a far better bet,
https://www.tellingthetruth.info/fou...neill_john.php...Leave a comment:
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There's a biography of MacNeil, "John MacNeil, A Memoir by His Wife, London, 1897" which might have info.
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Since I've only got 45 years experience in the film and TV industry, I'll bow to your superior knowledge go the industry's terminology.Leave a comment:
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The review, as opposed to the Hollywood pre-publicity.
Could you point to where you are reading the reviewer wrote there were shots of Limehouse locales as opposed to general London shots, ("a romantic quarter of London"?) in the film?
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>>Filmed in America, you say?<<
Definitely, with a couple of stock shots of London G.V's edited into the final cut.
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>>I recently came across a reference to another pre-war film that had been filmed in Limehouse. When London Sleeps (1926) <<
"When London Sleeps" is a different film, "While London Sleeps" is the one you're thinking of. Set in Limehouse, but filmed in America....Leave a comment:
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>>Who said he was specifically killing victims of opportunity during his commute?<<
Ummm ...
"I would suggest that the Ripper murders were all opportunist slayings. ... Killing en route to work would equal killing in the window of opportunity that opened...Leave a comment:
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We just booked a holiday in Ukraine!
It seems a great way to help out the people there. Air B and B have suspended their fees, so all the money goes straight to the owner.
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Loved the back page fold ins.Leave a comment:
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Article from the Daily Mail about the coroners office
How my brilliant ancestor worked out Jack the Ripper had killed again: At a loose end over Christmas, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS did some research on his family tree... and unearthed a thrilling and gruesome discovery- Thomas Chivers was an East End coroner's officer during Jack the Ripper's spree
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According to Findagrave, https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/...ate-churchyard
"It was often referred to as the "Church of Prostitutes" in the late Victorian period for a very strange reason. The church is situated on an island of land surrounded...Leave a comment:
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