Henriques Street
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East End of London
The East End of London, also known simply as the East End, is the area of London, England, United Kingdom, east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Although not defined by universally accepted formal boundaries, the River Lea can be considered another boundary...
street off Commercial Road
Commercial Road
Commercial Road , in length, is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. It runs from "Gardener's Corner" , through Stepney to the junction with Burdett Road , Limehouse from which point the route becomes the East India Dock Road...
in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It is in the eastern part of London and covers much of the traditional East End. It also includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks...
.
Landmarks
The street is the location of the Bernhard BaronBernhard Baron
Bernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk , in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the...
House, the building where the well-known Jewish philanthropist and social activist Basil Henriques
Basil Henriques
Sir Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques was a Jewish philanthropist of Portuguese origins, concentrating his work in the East End of London during the first half of the 20th century....
based his social club for young men for many years. The street was renamed Henriques Street in his honour.
Jack the Ripper
On the night of 30 September 1888, prostitute Elizabeth StrideElizabeth Stride
Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride is believed to be the third victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer called Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888.She was nicknamed "Long Liz"...
was found dead in Dutfield's Yard off Berner Street. Though the body was not mutilated, the murder is usually attributed to Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper
"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...
, as her body was found the same night as that of Catherine Eddowes
Catherine Eddowes
Catherine Eddowes was one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders. She was the second person killed on the night of Sunday 30 September 1888, a night which already had seen the murder of Elizabeth Stride less than an hour earlier...
, only a few streets away.
A postcard received by the police the next day, before the main daily newspapers carried the story, mentioned a "double event", thus linking the Stride killing to the Ripper. However, research has since shown that early editions of subsequent newspapers carried details of the two murders so it is possible (probable, if it is accepted that a previous similar postcard was in fact the work of two journalists) that the author of the postcard could have read about the murders and still had time to post the postcard.