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Jack the Ripper
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Julesy May 2 2008, 03:10 PM Post #161
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is she the chick who finds clues in bugs on the body and such?
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I'm liking Walter Sickert; he's almost as much of a selfish sociopath as I am! :faint

:faint :faint :faint :faint :faint

maybe you are from his family tree? I mean I know he had no children, but maybe you fall from one of his relatives apples?
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Nicky Mayfair May 2 2008, 03:48 PM Post #163
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sickert

he fathered countless kids! this Cornwell biyatch doesn't know her arse from her elbow!
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You Don’t Know Jack

A new museum exhibition opens the case file on Jack the Ripper—and affords a grim look at the London of the time—a city made for murder.

The sallow faces of lifeless prostitutes gaze out from the display, their skin scrofulous from poor diet, their mouths gaping as if in misery. These sepia-stained images are thought to be the first crime scene photos ever taken, used by Scotland Yard in its hunt to catch Jack the Ripper in the late 19th century. There's no Hollywood glamour in this blunt presentation of the facts, just the facts, about the first serial killer to capture the attention of the world's mass media. The grisly frames are a sobering reminder that this is one cold case that may not be solved, but will never be closed.

For the first time ever, amateur detectives can access the original evidence in the case. An unmatched new show at the Museum of London, "Jack the Ripper and the East End" (through November 2008 at the museum's new Docklands branch), lays out the entire case file. Its displays of photographs, police reports and curios—including letters the Ripper allegedly sent the police—fill more than 6,000 square feet. "There has never been a serious exhibition that allows the public to see the original material," says curator Alex Werner. "We place the murders in a historical context and let the artifacts speak for themselves."

The exhibit does that by creating a vivid and often troubling portrait of Victorian London at the time of the 11 murders that terrorized the city from 1888 to 1891. Curators spent two years trolling through municipal and museum archives, digging up a stunning series of photographs that document the East End's grueling poverty. Gaggles of barefoot homeless children, known then as "street Arabs," loiter in the snowy alleyways. A knifesmith—the strain of arduous labor etched in his face—stares vacantly into the lens. We see how whole neighborhoods were dangerous no-go areas for the respectable middle class.

The murders confronted prosperous Victorians with the rot at the heart of their society. "At the turn of the century over one-third of Londoners were living on or below the poverty line," says Werner, who points to a color-coded "poverty map" of London, published in 1889 by the social scientist Charles Booth. The map labels low-income black spots that dominate Whitechapel, where the mutilated victims were dumped, as "vicious, semi-criminal." The area's dank, unsanitary alleys and its slum housing—known as "rookeries"—were riddled with malnutrition and disease, a plight to which most wealthy Londoners had previously been oblivious. Indeed, George Bernard Shaw remarked at the time that the Ripper had done more for London than any philanthropist.

The fascination with Jack the Ripper began early. Only weeks into the investigation, waxwork models of the supposed killer were on show in nearby streets. Scotland Yard logged hundreds of letters from people claiming to be "Saucy Jack." Handwritten and brimming with macabre detail, the letters are the highlights of the show. Some are from respectable advisers giving helpful hints to the police: "Why not disguise oneself as an undesirable and catch him that way?" says one note from an address in a leafy suburb. The particularly gruesome "Lusk letter" is headed "From Hell." It was posted to the police along with half a human kidney, proclaiming that the sender had eaten the other half.

The show is also a postmortem on the cultural impact of the murders. The crimes galvanized the young genre of detective fiction. Scotland Yard believed the blood-red letter that coined the name "Jack the Ripper" was actually the handiwork of a journalist, keen to boost his newspaper's circulation. Alongside the police notes and postmortem reports are art objects. One sinister photomontage by the Surrealist Max Ernst is clearly inspired by the crimes. Another engraving by the German Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka illustrates the enduring themes of brutality and humanity. More haunting is the dark oil painting by Walter Sickert entitled "Jack the Ripper's Bedroom," packed full of suspiciously specific detail.

Fingerpointers will find themselves lingering at the suspects' wall at the end of the exhibit, where Sickert features prominently. He was accused by crime writer Patricia Cornwell in her 2002 book, which claimed that DNA evidence linked the artist to letters from the time. The exhibit works hard to debunk the myths and correct the historical record by laying out the raw evidence in accessible form. A set of razor-sharp knives and a syphilitic skull, eroded with disease, give frightening proximity to the Ripper's victims. An enormous stuffed bloodhound from the era evokes the frenzy of the manhunt. Such artifacts are far more chilling—and definitely more informative—than any Hollywood retelling of this unsolved tale.


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Jane Jun 10 2008, 07:27 PM Post #165
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Me and Nicky went on the walk on Sunday night! He had been before so if I had any questions Nicky could answer then better than the tour guide!

Would have been better in the dark but it was still eerie and I've never been in these areas in the east end before.
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 07:30 PM Post #166
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Never done that...

Did you see other parts of the East end tho? I LOVE the East end. Esp. Bricklane, Shoreditch, Hoxton....love it!!!! Practically lived there!
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Petticoat lane and Spitalfields market. Normally in London I'm just near the shopping areas!
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 07:36 PM Post #168
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Only those? The market is nice and so is Petticoat Lane. The shopping areas in London are horrid! You were only a two minute walk away from Brick Lane! :tapping The coolest bars and joints where they play great music and hold great exhibitions...you should have gone out after the walk!
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Did you smell the curry in the air? I did when I did the tour.
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 07:43 PM Post #170
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The Curry is everywhere! lol!

My ex used to live just off the Lane. Right in the middle of the Bangladeshi community. It is a great area though. It's historical, yet very arty and avant-garde.A great mix of progressive music, art and great people!
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Nicky Mayfair Jun 10 2008, 08:21 PM Post #171
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why Hoxton, Rodney?
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 08:25 PM Post #172
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Why? Oh my god! It's great. Great atmosphere. Francesco(the ex) used to have exhibitions there. His friends as well in galleries in the area. There was always this buzz of excitement and kind of a bohemian thang going on. The bars around Hoxton square are very chilled(sometimes a bit pretentious) and because of it's setting it's great for bar-hopping. And it's not too far from Cargo and cose to a 24 hour Bagelshop that will change your life.

I heart the Eastend
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Nicky Mayfair Jun 10 2008, 08:26 PM Post #173
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I went to college in Hoxton but this was back in '91 - '93. Are there any gay bars there?
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 08:33 PM Post #174
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Ummm. not that I know off? I know one on Commercial Road. It's very nice. But then they don't really do the whole gay/bi/straight-place in that area. It's all very reaxed and chilled. What with all those artists around you'd be hardpressed not to see gays and straights in one bar. It's not like the HORRIBLE west end. I have evolved thank god! I like it that way. I don't go to gay bars perse anymore. Because all they have is Kylie blasting through the speakers or some Bear trying to rape you with his eyes lol.

Apparently, Hoxton went through this rejuvenation in the late 90's and is now the height of "cool".
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Jane Jun 10 2008, 09:43 PM Post #175
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Pics from the walk

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Auntie Maine Jun 10 2008, 09:44 PM Post #176
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:clap :clap :clap I want to go!!!
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Rodney Jun 10 2008, 09:46 PM Post #177
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Very pretty Jane!!! Twas nice weather, I see!

Ow that pub is on Commercial road! I'm gonna cry. I miss London so much :cry
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I don't see Jane or Nicky in those pics!
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Nicky Mayfair Jun 11 2008, 09:03 AM Post #179
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The Ten Bells on Commerical Street! that's where most if not all of the Ripper's victims drank, and where he picked at least one of them up!
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Rodney Jun 11 2008, 11:38 AM Post #180
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It's a really nice pub but, i did'nt know about it's history! Creepy stuff!
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