East End and West End

[Sophie Dublanc Dunaway]

I need help about information of East End y West End.
For example:
- What distance separates them?
- How much longer it takes to get from one place to another?
- What bridge is taken to go to the other side?

Thanks!!

[The Grave Maurice]

Patience, Monty, patience.

[Sophie Dublanc Dunaway]

Yes, Patience, like my favourite film, The Mummy "The patience it's a virtue"

[corey123]

Map

How about you look at a map of london for 1888 and you will find out??

Welcome to the forum though.

Happy Holidays

[Roy Corduroy]

East End y West End.

Good evening Sophie, East and West are separated by the ancient City of London. You go from one side of London to the other. There is no bridge to cross. The East End has the Tower of London and Ripper tours. West End has Soho, the theatres, and Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.

William Shakespeare in wax


Welcome senora,
Roy

[DVV]

There is no bridge to cross.

Roy

Hi Roy,

there must have been some sort of Borgo pass in 1888, though.

Melkam Gänna, hullum,
Dawit

[kensei]

The East End also has Tower Bridge, London City Hall, the Docklands, etc. The West End also has museums, palaces (Buckingham & Kensington), and Parliament/Big Ben & 10 Downing Street.

Hyde Park, the biggest park in London, is quite far west. By my London map, from the west end of that park to Whitechapel and the area of the Ripper murders is only about 5.3 miles. (If I've misinterpreted that, someone please soundly thrash me.) Today, getting from place to place in London by subway is usually just a matter of several minutes. Back in the 19th century, I suppose it was a matter of how fast your horses were.

[Observer]

Hi Sophie

If you ever do come to London, and are ever in the East End and need to cross to the West End, and can not find a bridge, I can recommend a good boat.

all the best

Observer

[DVV]

Which one ?
The Princess Alice ?
Better cross the Thames at Gravesend, in the purest Piggott's style.

Best wishes my dear,
David

[Observer]

And best wishes to you David, and the seasons greetings.

The boat is the Saucy Jack ex canteen boat for retired sailors, plied the great South Seas, taking coconuts from Southend to Margate.

all the best

Observer

[Sophie Dublanc Dunaway]

For a story I write at the time of the murders, I would like to know how to cross East End and West End. If there by train, by car only ... displacement in London, I'm lost.

[ChrisGeorge]

For a story I write at the time of the murders, I would like to know how to cross East End and West End. If there by train, by car only ... displacement in London, I'm lost.

By means of railway (the "Underground"), by omnibus (horsedrawn bus), by horse and carriage, by horse and cart, by means of your own horse, by foot. Take you pick. Good luck with your story. There are plenty of period stories as well as nonfiction that should give you material for your writing.

Chris

[Limehouse]

Sophie, a good way to do it would be to select 'maps' when you log on to Google, then select 'satelite' and then 'London, UK'. You will be able to zoom in and track across London from east to west, or west to east, as you choose. If you want to start west, I'd opt for starting somewhere like Shaftsbury Avenue or Bond Street, somewhere like that, then look for an east end street such as Commercial Road (all the street names appear as you zoom in). For an even better 'journey', use 'street view' and you can travel along most streeets, looking at the buildings as you go.

Good luck!

[Sophie Dublanc Dunaway]

That's a good idea! I will to try it