How realistic was it for JTR to disguise himself as a PC?

[Leanne]

The link about plays a video of the passage in question of Millers Court before it was pulled down. The camera scans all the way down the passage, revealing a window and a door besides Mary Kelly's.

[Sam Flynn]

The link about plays a video of the passage in question of Millers Court before it was pulled down. The camera scans all the way down the passage, revealing a window and a door besides Mary Kelly's.

Miller's Court was demolished in the 1920s, though.

[Leanne]

DORSET STREET SPITALFIELSDS 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RY4iKMEYE

[Leanne]

Was it completely demolished?

[Scott Nelson]

Except for my assigned parking space, which is directly over the location of MJK's bed.

Leanne, how good to see you return! I enjoyed your book on Barnett very much.

It would have been nice to see a bit more discussion and background on Joseph Fleming, though.

[Leanne]

THE END OF DORSET STREET 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Un8aOMTHSc

[Sam Flynn]

Was it completely demolished?

The Northern part of the street, which included Miller's Court, was completely flattened. We even have photographs of the demolition in progress, in which Kelly's room, and the nearby arched entrance passage, can just be glimpsed among the rubble.

Edit - photographs on this thread:

https://forum.casebook.org/forum/ripper-discussions/scene-of-the-crimes/11084-miller-s-court-demolition-photo

[Sam Flynn]

THE END OF DORSET STREET 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Un8aOMTHSc

That's not the demolition of the street where Kelly et al lived, but the demolition of the buildings that were built over the site of Dorset Street after 1930 or so. Those buildings (store rooms/warehouses in the main) were until recently located parallel to White's Row car park, but have now been replaced by even newer buildings. The original Dorset Street was already long-gone before that (second) demolition took place; indeed, "Dorset Street" hadn't existed for the best part of a century when that video was made, so to label it "The End of Dorset Street" was a bit tongue-in-cheek.

[Sam Flynn]

DORSET STREET SPITALFIELSDS 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RY4iKMEYE

Likewise, those buildings were bbuilt on the approximate site of the former Dorset Street, but not the original.

[Leanne]

I remember reading somewhere that before the completion of the carpark over Mary Kelly's room, they agreed to allow Ripper walks.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ripper+Victim+Mary+Kelly&&view=detail&mid=27F4C151249FF91D16C527F4C151249FF91D16C5&&FORM=VRDGAR

[Leanne]

I can't hear exactly what he is saying, but I can make out the words "....and cut out her heart....", "...on the bed...". "...fireplace...", and right at the end "...Mary Kelly..."

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[Leanne]

The Northern part of the street, which included Miller's Court, was completely flattened. We even have photographs of the demolition in progress, in which Kelly's room, and the nearby arched entrance passage, can just be glimpsed among the rubble.

Edit - photographs on this thread:

https://forum.casebook.org/forum/rip...molition-photo

Where exactly in that photo is Millers Court?

[Leanne]

That photo doesn't show that Millers Court was COMPLETELY FLATTENED. Just the top floors. Look at the bottom righthand side of that photo. Couldn't they have left the passage in question out of morbid curiosity?

[Sam Flynn]

Where exactly in that photo is Millers Court?

If you look at post #3 on that thread, Simon Wood posted a close-up centred on Mary Kelly's room itself. You can just make out the top of Kelly's door and the curved archway of the entrance passage to Miller's Court to the right of it. You'll also note that the block of rooms on the western side of Miller's Court has been completely flattened, as would the rest of Miller's Court and Dorset Street shortly thereafter.

The entire northern side of Dorset Street was completely demolished in the late 1920s, and new buildings built in its place. There was even further development of the site in the 1960s, the results of which can be seen in this photograph from 2006:



The buildings that once occupied what was the northern side of Dorset Street (including Miller's Court) are to the left of this image, and the southern side of Dorset Street was replaced by what is now the White's Row car park to the right. The car park still stands, but the buildings to the left were demolished circa 2015 and replaced with newer buildings still. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset..._(Spitalfields)

[Leanne]

Sam,

The first photo does not prove that the passage in question was flattened to ground, even if it does show that Millers Court was destroyed! (look at the bottom left corner), We are looking from above at the second floor.

The second photo showing the closeup of Mary Kelly's room and the glimpse of the archway, does not prove that the passage leading to that archway was flattened.

I read that that it was left intact for a while.


I've moved house while I was absent from these boards, had a lot of books with dogears and pages missing and only brought some. I'll try to find the book that info is from.

Leanne Perry