Kearly and Tonge...coincidence ?

[Rubyretro]

Has this been discussed before or not ?

I was just idly googling around (I confess, it's those arson attacks against
Jewish businesses and homes which fascinate me)..and I came to John Bennett's comment about Leornard Matters's photo of Durwood Street :
" Matters' photograph has been widely published, showing as it does Durward Street looking east towards the huge Kearly and Tonge warehouses near Vallance Road"

Of course, there was also a huge Kearly and Tonge warehouse in Mitre Square too.

Is this just one of the other huge coincidences that we are always finding in the Ripper Case...or did our killer work sometimes for Kearly and Tonge, and thus knew the frequentation of the sites, was a familiar face, and knew the policeman's beat off by heart ?

Did he drink regularly in the Roebuck after work, and know Polly, I wonder ?

We know that informal (Jewish) clubs were often held in pub rooms, and that Durwood Street had an important Ashkenazi cemetary. What info do we have on the Roebuck ?

[protohistorian]

I would not read anything into it, I have found several. Dave

[Rubyretro]

I would not read anything into it, I have found several. Dave

Yes, Dave...I'm just looking at the Jam 'Ole Run..

It would be very interesting to know where all those factories/docks are, and whether there is anything interesting to discover that might have happened in the environs.

Since I'm still a Hutchsonian, it seems the sort of places that might employ
a casual labourer like him..

[protohistorian]

Alas they were not in the district so they did not get plotted. Rather they got plotted and deleted when I rescaled the project. I am sorry. Dave

[Rubyretro]

Alas they were not in the district so they did not get plotted. Rather they got plotted and deleted when I rescaled the project. I am sorry. Dave

I see there was a jam factory on the Grand Union Canal, at Southall, and coal for fueling the factories was unloaded at Mitre Dock on the Paddington Canal (?)

[Rubyretro]

The jam making factory in Durwood street was started in 1895 -but apparently on the site of tea warehouses.

[Monty]

Has been discussed many times Ruby.

Go and gem up on AP Wolfs Jack the Myth (which is available for free here on Casebook as an E book) and his suspect Cutbush. Who worked in the tea trade, and is suspected by AP as an ex Kearley & Tonge employee.

Monty

[Rubyretro]

Has been discussed many times Ruby.

Go and gem up on AP Wolfs Jack the Myth (which is available for free here on Casebook as an E book) and his suspect Cutbush. Who worked in the tea trade, and is suspected by AP as an ex Kearley & Tonge employee.

Monty

Thanks Monty -I thought that it was a bit too good to be true !!

And I'm sorry for spelling Kearley wrong !

I shall go read Jack the Myth -I have read about Cutbush before on Casebook, and didn't 'buy him' as a suspect though...

Still, there might be something in the K&T thing...?

[protohistorian]

other district wharehouses

Why limit yourself ? Dave

[Sally]

Hi All, Rubyretro.

I think this is very interesting - I accept it may be co-incidence, although since I think Kearley and Tonge had only two warehouses in London (not 100% sure, so please correct me if I'm wrong) it is qute striking.

By comparision, I believe there was also a knacker's yard in the vicinity of the first two murder sites, but presumably they were ubiquitous enough not to require a special explantion?

Is an ascertained fact that K&T had warehouses in both locations in 1888? I had a look around online but failed to find the answer.

Thanks in advance.

[The Grave Maurice]

...didn't 'buy him' as a suspect though...

Nice turn of phrase, Ruby. As you may know, the editor of the Journal of the Whitechapel Society has, once again, admonished his readers about using the term "non-starter". He might like your wording better.