- Hanbury Street
Hanbury Street is a street in
Spitalfields ,London Borough of Tower Hamlets , in theEast End of London .In the early morning of
9 September 1888 , the mutilated body of prostituteAnnie Chapman was found in the garden of #29 Hanbury Street. Like other prostitutes, Chapman regularly entertained clients there, gaining access to the garden by a door on the front of the building, usually unlocked, that provided access to a narrow passage through the building to the rear.Chapman is generally held to have been the second victim of
Jack the Ripper . In order to get a clear view of what the murder scene looked like during the Ripper's era, there is still some authentic [http://www.jacktheripper.nl/Media/Video/29hanburystreet.php film footage] available from 29 Hanbury Street's back-yard (1967).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 was on the north side of the street, no longer exists, having been demolished. The
Old Truman Brewery was extended to cover the entire block north of Hanbury street; and since 2004 this has been the site of Sunday (Up)Market [http://www.sundayupmarket.co.uk/] .
British entertainerBud Flanagan was born at #12 Hanbury Street in 1896.
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