Museum billed as celebration of London women opens as Jack the Ripper exhibit

[Spymaster]

Cafe Spice Namaste is a stone's throw away if you fancy upmarket Parsi

Know it well.

 

[Roadkill]

over there in that america land I hear they now routinely demolish the houses of notorious serial killers when caught to stop these macarbe murder tours going on. I think you can do a manson family one as well, visiting all the places of note.

That's happened here too: Fred and Rose West's gaff was demolished, and the bricks were crushed and timbers burned to deter souvenir hunters.

 

[Spymaster]

That's happened here too: Fred and Rose West's gaff was demolished, and the bricks were crushed and timbers burned to deter souvenir hunters.

Ian Huntley's too, I think.

 

[Wilf]

As with anything, there are probably gradations in all these walking tours, tv progs, books and the like based on real crimes. Depends on how they are done, what the motivations are, how voyeuristic etc. Moving away from jtr, I always feel a bit queasy when there's a tv dramatisation of some real world murder or series of murders. I'm not making a point of principle, just a feeling, largely about what the bereaved relatives must be going through. The Christopher Jeffries prog is the best recent example I can think of. Admittedly, undermining my own point, I did watch it.

 

[Pickman's model]

You see no difference between fiction and actual murders?

ah, so your objection not to crime as entertainment but genuine murders as entertainment.

 

[weepiper]

http://www.eavesforwomen.org.uk/new...ects-any-connection-to-jack-the-ripper-museum

 

[Lurdan]

The 'Museum's' website and
Facebook profile

The various planning applications made - LBTH

Mr Palmer-Edgecumbe said: “We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.

This shitbag's bullshit about the 'recent' change of plans is a little undermined by the fact that he has been a director of a company called 'Museum of Jack the Ripper Ltd' since 2012.

Museum of Jack the Ripper Ltd - Companies House

And demonstrating that it's all being done 'in the best possible taste' here's a picture of the signboard outside

Spoiler: Signboard photo

and one of the full frontage

Spoiler: Full Museum Frontage

(pictures courtesy of the JTR forum)

Note the tasteful 'fake' blue plaques 'celebrating' George Chapman (convicted murderer and unlikely Ripper suspect) and Elizabeth Stride (victim).

 

[cesare]

They don't mention that the "seven minutes walk from Tower Hill station" includes negotiating the major one way system

 

[cesare]

It says the museum is "in the heart of Whitechapel" - is it bollocks

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Jesus. And people say I have a sick sense of humor.

 

[DotCommunist]

It says the museum is "in the heart of Whitechapel" - is it bollocks

its a con for tourists and chew strawing rubes! Report them to the board of Telling The Truth!

 

[Citizen66]

ah, so your objection not to crime as entertainment but genuine murders as entertainment.

I said A crime, not the fiction crime genre.

 

[Pickman's model]

I said A crime, not the fiction crime genre.

nice to see an uberpedant at work

 

[stethoscope]

And we've already lost valuable community resources in the East-end such as the Women's Library

 

[cesare]

I've emailed English Heritage to see if those two blue plaques are anything to do with them (very doubtful).

 

[cesare]

its a con for tourists and chew strawing rubes! Report them to the board of Telling The Truth!

It's a profit extraction enterprise with a misogynistic twist built on deceit.

 

[Pickman's model]

I've emailed English Heritage to see if those two blue plaques are anything to do with them (very doubtful).

they're not

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co....tes_turns_out_to_be_jack_the_ripper_1_4172863

 

[DotCommunist]

It's a profit extraction enterprise with a misogynistic twist built on deceit.

run by someone who acts the liberal. #What is it now? 200 years and the deaths of wc sex workers in the east end is still turning profit for public school wanks like this cuthbert-fotherington

 

[cesare]

they're not

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co....tes_turns_out_to_be_jack_the_ripper_1_4172863

Aye I bet they are fake but it's for English Heritage to confirm now innit

 

[editor]

On the news the lying weasel claimed that the bit of space on the sign under JACK THE RIPPER MUSEUM was always intended to have "...and social history of women" added.

 

[Artaxerxes]

they're not

http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co....tes_turns_out_to_be_jack_the_ripper_1_4172863

[/QUOTE]

The Advertiser approached No 12 yesterday and was told by a ‘minder’ not to photograph the shop—or police would be summoned.

Would the minder then be arrested for wasting police time seeing as photography in a public place (viz. the street) is acceptable?

 

[Pickman's model]

Would the minder then be arrested for wasting police time seeing as photography in a public place (viz. the street) is acceptable?

probably not.

 

[Spymaster]

I've emailed English Heritage to see if those two blue plaques are anything to do with them (very doubtful).

Do they have "English Heritage" on them? I can't find a close up.

 

[cesare]

Do they have "English Heritage" on them? I can't find a close up.

They look like English Heritage blue plaques, so that's why I've asked English Heritage.

 

[cesare]

Their map on the website shows Tower Bridge Station (in addition to Tower Hill and Tower Gateway). No such station

 

[Citizen66]

nice to see an uberpedant at work

I was addressing your pedantry!

 

[Lurdan]

Only pictures I can find are too blurry to make out the small print on them.

Spoiler: Plaque pictures

Aye I bet they are fake but it's for English Heritage to confirm now innit

Definitely not English Heritage plaques. Neither Chapman or Stride have any connection with that building. And I suspect they might have difficulty meeting the English Heritage criteria that they

Be considered eminent by a majority of members of their own profession; have made an outstanding contribution to human welfare or happiness;

Whether anyone can be stopped from 'passing off' a blue plaque seems a bit unlikely however given that there are other unofficial blue plaques about.

 

[Pickman's model]

Do they have "English Heritage" on them? I can't find a close up.

they're fake as per the article i linked to some posts up

 

[Pickman's model]

I was addressing your pedantry!

by trying to exculpate yourself you're only making matters worse

 

[Spymaster]

They look like English Heritage blue plaques, so that's why I've asked English Heritage.

There is a fine tradition of blue plaque snidery in London. English Heritage get the ones with their name on removed but can't do anything about the ones that don't if the property owner doesn't complain: