The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper (29 page)

1. Mortuary photograph of Martha Tabram, considered by many as an early, or even the first, victim of the Whitechapel murderer.

2. Sketch of Gunthorpe Street (formerly George Yard) made in the 1940s. The two figures are standing in front of George Yard Buildings, where the body of Martha Tabram was discovered.

3. Mortuary photograph of Mary Ann Nichols. Pictures such as these were taken to record the face in case the body was not identified before burial.

4. Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, in the late 1920s. By this time it had been renamed Durward Street.

5. Mortuary photograph of Annie Chapman.

6. 29 Hanbury Street in the 1960s, a few years before demolition. Annie Chapman would have accompanied her killer through the left-hand door to the back yard (the other door was a later addition).

7. Mortuary photograph of Elizabeth Stride. The throat wound, just visible in this picture, was the only one inflicted on the victim.

8. Berner Street in April 1909. The narrow entrance to Dutfield’s Yard is marked by the cartwheel jutting out from the wall. The International Working Men’s Educational Club is the taller property behind.

9. Catherine Eddowes in the mortuary ‘shell’, prior to the post-mortem.

10. Catherine Eddowes after the post-mortem stitching, showing the injuries to the face.

11. Contemporary sketch of Catherine Eddowes’s body as found in Mitre Square. It was drawn by city surveyor Frederick Foster and would have been used at the inquest.

12. Entrance to 108–119 Wentworth Dwellings, Goulston Street, where the missing portion of Catherine Eddowes’s apron was found, as well as the controversial writing on the wall.

13. The body of Mary Kelly as found in her room in Miller’s Court, Dorset Street.