Emma Elizabeth Smith
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Emma Elizabeth Smith was a woman of uncertain origins who was murdered in late‑19th-century London. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders. Although it has been suggested that she may ha
Jack the Ripper 1888
Whitechapel
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Whitechapel is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the borough town centre
Entrance to Whitechapel station
Whitechapel High Street, and St Mary Matfelon, in 1905
The London Hospital, Whitechapel in 1753. The Whitechapel Mount stands immediately to the right (west).
Plaque commemorating King Edward VII, with the inscription "erected with subscriptions raised by Jewish inhabitants of East London 1911"