Muttley,

Must agree with you re Ms Cornwell but have to admit I haven't read her book although I have read most of the others over the years.
You urge people to go visit the Ripper sites, what exactly is left ?
My great grandparents lived in Montague Street and Preston Street which are both now part of Hanbury Street and my Grandfather was born there in 1872. Hanbury Street was as you are already aware of course the site of one of the Ripper victims. That house has dissappeared likewise the buildings in the street behind Whitechapel Station. I have been into the area quite a lot over the last year or so photographing anything that might be left from the era when my various forbears were living there and there is really very little. Nevertheless it is an interesting area and what is left should be preserved and protected from the city developers with vast megabucks who are gradually eating into what is left and putting up vast blots on the landsacep.

Hoot

P.S. Have you given up coach driving or is my memory for names at fault?