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  • #46
    Does anyone know what type of occupations, particularly working class occupations, traditionally didn't require their employees to work weekends or Bank Holidays in 1888?

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    • #47
      Originally posted by c.d. View Post
      Wasn't [payday] generally on Saturday?
      Not sure, CD. For quite a few, it would have been a case of being paid on the day on which they found work. Not that everyone in Whitechapel worked on an "as-and-when" basis, of course.
      Kind regards, Sam Flynn

      "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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      • #48
        We tend to think of the times as something pertaining to Jack himself but the times could have involved other people like the need for family to be out of the way.

        c.d.

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        • #49
          Originally posted by c.d. View Post
          We tend to think of the times as something pertaining to Jack himself but the times could have involved other people like the need for family to be out of the way.
          Absolutely - the patterns might reveal less about him as such, as about those around him. For example, if he were a lodging-house dweller, there may have been times when his co-dossers would have been less likely to notice his absence. If, that is, they were in a position to have missed him in the first place: with so many "transients" around, this might have worked in his favour.
          Kind regards, Sam Flynn

          "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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          • #50
            Speaking of patterns, it would seem that the first 2 murders established that he went back to work within a fortnight....which means that the "pattern" ends with Annie.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Joshua Rogan View Post
              Nichols - Thursday night
              Chapman - Friday night
              Double event - Saturday night
              Kelly - Thursday night / Friday morning - unofficial holiday
              One constant appears to be around 3.40am on a Friday morning.
              My name is Dave. You cannot reach me through Debs email account

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