Tag Archives: Whitechapel
HISTORY SHARE: PENNY FOR THE GUY
England’s Bonfire Night guys tend to reflect their times. The one pictured is typical of a man of the 1950s, but when Jack the Ripper was plying his trade back in the late 1880s, some of the Guy Fawkes effigies being paraded around were made to look like the public’s supposed image of the person […]
TRIVIA TRAIL # 21: JACK THE RIPPER
Question: Who was Jack the Ripper’s first victim? Answer: Mary Ann Nichols, who was killed August 31st, 1888 in the East End of London (Buck’s Row, Whitechapel). The serial killer who would become known as Jack the Ripper because of his brutal mutilations of his victims’ bodies went on to kill four more women until […]
