WS Christmas Weekend
Saturday 1st December A.G.M The Society’s A.G.M will be at 6pm in the basement room of the Chamberlain Hotel on Saturday 1st December 2018. December Meeting We are delighted to announce that our speaker will be Jon Rees whose talk is entitled “A Century Apart: Profiles of Jack the Ripper”. Doors will open at 7pm for a…
River Police Museum in Wapping by Tony Power
WHITECHAPEL SOCIETY INTERIM EVENT JULY 2018 BY TONY POWER When we arranged to visit the River Police Museum in Wapping earlier in the year, we had no idea that we would all still have an interest in the World Cup—how wrong we were!! While England’s unexpected progress did have an inevitable effect on our numbers,…
A walk around Bucks Row with Steve Blomer
The main aim of Steve Blomer’s walk was to show us the routes taken by Charles Lechmere/Cross and Robert Paul from their homes to the place in Bucks Row where they encountered the body of Polly Nichols. But the walk also covered lots of other points of interest along the way and we had an afternoon of…
‘Victims’ Event, Hanbury Street – Speakers announced
THE WHITECHAPEL SOCIETY ‘VICTIMS’ EVENT AT HANBURY HALL, HANBURY STREET, LONDON. NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCED – LOUISE RAW “Striking a Light: East End Women. Bow Matchwomen, East London Suffragettes, women at Cable Street in 1936, war workers; the women and girls of the East End have a long history of making history! Hear how they stood…
WS Christmas weekend – 3rd/4th December
Saturday 3rd Dec 2pm-4pm: Visit to the Bishopsgate Institute including seeing The Ted Ball Collection. Cost £2. 7pm-late: Christmas meeting of The WS at The Chamberlain Hotel. Auction of books (details to follow), launch of the new Whitechapel Society book, Quiz, Entertainment. The best leather apron competition. Entry free for WS members, guests pay £5 on the door. Sunday…
Memorial service to mark 73rd Anniversary of the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster Sun 6th March, 2pm
DAME BARBARA WINDSOR TO ATTEND THE MEMORIAL SERVICE TO MARK THE 73RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE BETHNAL GREEN TUBE SHELTER DISASTER – THE WORST CIVILIAN DISASTER OF WORLD WAR 2 SUNDAY 6TH MARCH AT 2pm AT ST. JOHN ON BETHNAL GREEN CHURCH (NEXT TO BETHNAL GREEN TUBE STATION). Dame Barbara Windsor will return to her East…
London walk, Saturday 7th May
On May 7th Trevor Bond is organising a walk around Shakespeare’s London, looking particularly at the theatres that were in the area at the time. It starts at 10.30, and finishes around 4 pm and includes a leisurely stroll around Southwark and Blackfriars, frequent refreshment stops, and possibly the tube to Shoredich for those of…
Casebook Classic Crime Symposium – December 2015
By Edward Stow Whitechapel Society stalwart Frogg Moody put on a special event on Saturday 5th December – the second Casebook Classic Crime Symposium. Frogg charged just £5 a head for this and not surprisingly the tickets sold out almost immediately.. The first speaker was Jon Rees. His talk ‘In a Nutshell’ was about the…