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To be taken with a pinch of salt
Imagine the scene three prostitues killed in Whitechapel in short succession, Turner Nichols, and Chapman. A photographer decides to go down to Whitechapel,(before there are none left!) and photograph some of the women for posteritys sake. Where does he go? Well I would have thought that Dorset Street, or Flower and Dean Street would be a good start. So off he goes to flower and Dean Street, and makes contact with a group of street women, and persuades them to pose for him. The resulting photo is this one
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Look at the big woman, the one seated with her back to camera in the Flower and Dean Street photo. Could this be Mary Kelly? She has her hair tied up, she's certainly the right build for Kelly, look at the woman in the shawl in the Flower and Dean photo, it would suggest that winter is approaching. But there's more, if you look at the photo of Dorset Street you'll see that the large woman appears again, this time standing in the street, she wears a white apron, also, the woman sitting smiling in the Flower and Dean photo, also appears in the Dorset Street photo again smiling at the camera it's obvious that these two women have followed the cameraman, either from Flower and Dean to Dorset, or from dorset to flower and Dean. To me, the smiling woman appears no more than 25, but no it can't be, does she look a bit like Kate Eddowes
Observer
To be taken with a pinch of salt
Imagine the scene three prostitues killed in Whitechapel in short succession, Turner Nichols, and Chapman. A photographer decides to go down to Whitechapel,(before there are none left!) and photograph some of the women for posteritys sake. Where does he go? Well I would have thought that Dorset Street, or Flower and Dean Street would be a good start. So off he goes to flower and Dean Street, and makes contact with a group of street women, and persuades them to pose for him. The resulting photo is this one
thumb_Flower_DeanDosshouse.jpg
thumb_dorset19thC.jpg
Look at the big woman, the one seated with her back to camera in the Flower and Dean Street photo. Could this be Mary Kelly? She has her hair tied up, she's certainly the right build for Kelly, look at the woman in the shawl in the Flower and Dean photo, it would suggest that winter is approaching. But there's more, if you look at the photo of Dorset Street you'll see that the large woman appears again, this time standing in the street, she wears a white apron, also, the woman sitting smiling in the Flower and Dean photo, also appears in the Dorset Street photo again smiling at the camera it's obvious that these two women have followed the cameraman, either from Flower and Dean to Dorset, or from dorset to flower and Dean. To me, the smiling woman appears no more than 25, but no it can't be, does she look a bit like Kate Eddowes
Observer
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"What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"" From Pyramids by Sir Terry Pratchett, a British National Treasure. 
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