Sorry, I couldn't resist, it was just too enticing!
No, I don't think Lechmere is the killer, I don't have any preferred suspect.
It's actually a good question, Mayhew's "London Labour and London Poor" is a great resource for getting an idea of just how busy the streets were. Also, the amount of industry cheek by jowl with residential property, combined with the amount of people who had nowhere to go all day would have made for a noisy environment.
Then there's the smoke and dust, the mixing of odours, the numerous pubs, quite a different atmosphere.
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My question is a long shot but I have good reasons for asking. It's a project I'm working on. But on another note, do you really think that Charles Cross killed Polly Nichols? Surely he'd have been covered in blood? also wasn't he on his way to work at the time so unlikely to have been premeditated?Leave a comment:
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I am fully braced in anticipation for the responses to this one...
Ahem.
"The sound of Charles Cross laughing as he walks away from a well duped PC Mizen"Leave a comment:
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Whitechapel sounds
hi, would welcome any thoughts on the type of sounds one would hear if they were transported back to Whitechapel in 1888. During the day and night. I appreciate they'd be a lot of clippity clop of horses hooves, newspaper boys calling, occasional dog barking out but what else ?
I'd really appreciate any info you have. thanks
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