29 Hanburry street

[thehood]

cats meat shop

Guys, you're the best! It's so hard to find the right pictures of JTR places as those street were rebuild short after the crimes...
So if I understand, the door leading to the court was the door were the policeman is standing. The entrance for the cat meat shop should be behind the house.
Any idea of the other shops that were around the place?
Thanks a lot,
TheHood

[Chris Scott]

This illustration shows the wording of the signs

[Mitch Rowe]

Jane Coram adds a sign in the window that Says: "Cats Meat Shop". Ive seen a drawing wich depicts this beautifully but cant find it now. However..The pic just posted by John Bennet shows this very sign in the window. Ive attached a blow up of that. So actually we have two drawings wich depicts the sign in the window. And Janes confirmation through her own rendition.

[John Bennett]

And here's another contemporary example -

[John Bennett]

In the absence of photography (for newspapers etc) illustrations were used and these are often quite accurate, as it appears that the artist would indeed have to visit the sites personally.

Thi illustration is from The Star of 8th September 1888.


The sign above the SINGLE door is for the Richardson's packing case manufacturing business. The shutters are typical of such early 18th century properties, examples of which can still be seen across the road.

It would appear that No.29 was refronted between 1888 and 1928, when Leonard Matters photographed it - the second door to the front shop was added and it became a hairdressers. The 'N Brill' shopfront we see in all the photos lasted until the house was demolished c.1970, even though it had been disused for years.

[thehood]

29 Hanbury street

Hello again,

- sorry for the bad spelling "HanbuRy"

Looking through casbook, I found that
"The ground floor of Number 29 was occupied by Mrs. Annie (Harriet) Hardyman and her 16 year old son. Both of them slept in the front room which doubled as a shop where they sold cat meat. The rear room was used as a kitchen."
Can we imagine that the shop was named "Hardiman/Hardyman's Cat Meat"? But did this shop window look like?

Let's play the game by finding the right shop sign! Who bets what?
TheHood

[Fisherman]

Hi thehood!

The ground floor of 29 Hanbury Street housed a catsīmeat shop run by mrs Hardiman back in 1888. One of her sons, James, has been put forward as a Ripper suspect.

The best!
Fisherman

[thehood]

Hello there,

Do you have any idea of what kind of shop could be on 29 Hanburry street?
I saw pictures in the gallery but the ones showing the number 29 are from 1930's and I doubt it was the same in 1888...
Thanks,
TheHood