Hanbury Street is a street running from Commercial Street in Spitalfields to Old Montague Street in Whitechapel located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The eastern section is restricted to ped
South side of Hanbury Street, showing 28 and 30
29 Hanbury Street (centre), as photographed in 1967. Jack the Ripper's second canonical victim was murdered at this location.
North side of Hanbury Street, depicting the former location of 29. This building covers the actual site of the murder of Annie Chapman.
Hanbury Street, seen here in 2007
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of the East End of London, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous jou
Hanbury Street
…September 1888, the body of Annie Chapman was found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street. Chapman is generally held to have been the second victim of Jack the Ripper. Today, buildings with shops below and flats above can still be found on the south side of Hanbury Street, across from the murder site. But 29, which…
"With the Vigilance Committee in the East End: A Suspicious Character" from The Illustrated London News, 13 October 1888
Women and children congregate in front of one of the Whitechapel common lodging-houses close to where Jack the Ripper murdered two of his victims.
The sites of the first seven Whitechapel murders – Osborn Street (centre right), George Yard (centre left), Hanbury Street (top), Buck's Row (far right), Berner Street (bottom right), Mitre Square (bottom left), and Dorset Street (middle left)