Wapping, docks

[Lady Anne]

I was just wondering.Has Wapping ever been mentioned in any regards to the ripper murders? Maybe, a suspect from the area or one of the victims who had frequented the docks or had lived there, etc etc. Cuious about Wapping..Thanks for any info..Feel it figures some how..

[MrBarnett]

I was just wondering.Has Wapping ever been mentioned in any regards to the ripper murders? Maybe, a suspect from the area or one of the victims who had frequented the docks or had lived there, etc etc. Cuious about Wapping..Thanks for any info..Feel it figures some how..

Hello,

Breezers Hill where Mary Kelly lived for a time is very close to Wapping and the London Docks.

MrB

[Cogidubnus]

Interesting query Lady Anne...a number of my ancestors were employed on the docks...but the family tales in my case were mostly regarding the intense rivalry between the East India dockers and West India dockers - particularly if they were competing violently for each others jobs...my grandad went to his grave two fingers short from such a dispute many years before...

Cheers

Dave

[Michael W Richards]

Dock workers were the largest number of employed men in that area at the time that were treated for socially contracted diseases, and it was HRH herself who inquired about the possibility that the killer worked on a ship docked in London at the time....so yep, the docks were considered as a possible source of the killer.

The Dock Fire the night of a "Ripper" murder may well be related for all we know.

Cheers

[Roy Corduroy]

Good evening Lady Anne, on the map Wapping docks are at bottom and the Tower bottom left. The murder sites Martha Tabram through Mary Kelly are shown in red. The crooked line is the boundary between City of London on the left, and Whitechapel and vicinity.



The map was made to show public houses, in black. Note all the pubs along Ratciffe Highway, just above the docks.

[drstrange169]

No "Nelson" in Berner Street.
Is that because it was a beer house?

[Roy Corduroy]

The dock at Wapping was filled in



Visit by the Fab Four



Surviving wharf buildings today

[MrBarnett]

Roy,

What a scene of devastation. ( I'm talking about the London Docks , not the Fab Four.) Amazingly Breezers Hill survived, although not the house in which Kelly Lodged.

I wonder whether the dock wall along Pennington Street is listed. It should be.

MrB

[Ginger]

No "Nelson" in Berner Street.
Is that because it was a beer house?

Beer Houses were distinct from Public Houses. A Public House could sell gin, a Beer House only beer.