Miller's Court after Kelly...........

[Sam Flynn]

A lot of 'peaked caps'!!!!

What's Lenin doing there? Second row, on the right (ironically) https://youtu.be/smXKyg0Qk0g?t=37

[Losmandris]

ALSO INTERESTING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smXKyg0Qk0g

A lot of 'peaked caps'!!!!

[Leanne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DEk-aMiKPY

[MrBarnett]

I’ve always wondered who the Freddy Mercury lookalike in the stripy jacket was.

Could it possibly be Arthur Harding’s sworn enemy, Isaac Bogard?

This is Arthur Harding's description of Bogard:

'He was very flamboyant. He dressed like a cowboy. It was before the cowboys on the pictures, y'know. He used to wear a big open shirt, like a woman's blouse, and a flash belt with something stuck in a case. It wasn't illegal to carry a gun at the time; he used to carry a big weapon stuck down his belt: a big Panama hat on - he was quite a character in his way.'

[Sam Flynn]

Good finds, Leanne.

[Leanne]

MOST INTERESTING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYps3JvHzoY

[MrBarnett]

ALSO INTERESTING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smXKyg0Qk0g

I’ve always wondered who the Freddy Mercury lookalike in the stripy jacket was.

Could it possibly be Arthur Harding’s sworn enemy, Isaac Bogard?

[Leanne]

ALSO INTERESTING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smXKyg0Qk0g

[Leanne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldcw8XEqYv8

INTERESTING!

[richardnunweek]

Hi
There were lots of streets in East London which looked similar to Dorset street, however there was only one that was , and that is pictured all over Casebook.

[Wickerman]

I've been busy searching every Victorian East London site searching for relevant photographs and I found this one on immigration:

THE LINK IS TITLED BOUNDARY STREET 1890
but it looks very much like Dorset Street. Where on a map is Boundary Street?

But Leanne, that picture is a dead end alley, Dorset Street is a thoroughfare (a through street). You might think it looks like Millers Court, but even that would be debatable, as it clearly isn't.
As a period photograph, it is a good one, and the house at the left looks similar to how No.26 looked.

And, as a minor point of trivia. That (above) is how I perceived room 13 looking before that doorway was (in my opinion) bricked up to make a smaller window. The actual door used by Kelly was probably a side window, originally.

[Sam Flynn]

Boundary Street was in Shoreditch, about half a mile north of "Dorset Street".



There's some evidence that Polly Nichols lodged there at some point. See the testimony of Jane "Oran" (actually Oram) in the press report linked below:

https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/evening_standard/18880904.html

[Leanne]

I've been busy searching every Victorian East London site searching for relevant photographs and I found this one on immigration:

THE LINK IS TITLED BOUNDARY STREET 1890
but it looks very much like Dorset Street. Where on a map is Boundary Street?

[Leanne]

YOU ARE CORRECT.
I also found an old message from 2011 about a petition that was made to save the site

…..so instead of digging it up and building right over it, they just widened it.

[Christian]

Thanks Christian and Sam! This makes sense now.

Pleasure sir