Review of the April 2023 Meeting of The Whitechapel Society By Louise Grace Rod Beattie presents: “Jack the Ripper: The Policeman”. Tony Power welcomed Rod Beattie to the April meeting of the Whitechapel Society. Rod had travelled all the way from Birmingham, the plan for which was thrown into repeated jeopardy by a threatened rail…
DetailsHere is an idea of what happens at our Interim Meeting that are our Jack The Ripper discussion groups. In the wake of our trip to the Postal Museum and the exhibition on The Great Train Robbery we found ourselves in the Crutched Friar Pub for the Interim discussion. Tonight, the topic is ‘Why Do…
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A package containing the April, June and August journals went into the post today (28/07) to each overseas member. The August journal will be despatched to UK members during the week commencing 3rd August.
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OUR October 2018 Speaker was John Malcolm. He is originally from New Hampshire in the United States, but now lives in Cardiff. His crossing of the Atlantic was directly influenced by his fascination for Jack the Ripper. But his talk would be one of reminiscence, reflection and observation. Twenty-five Years of Adventure, Introspection & Exasperation…
DetailsSaturday 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…
DetailsWHITECHAPEL 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,…
DetailsINTERIM MEETING JULY 2018 BY STEVE RATTEY Question: If Gareth Southgate did wonders for the England’s World Cup football team today, but in doing so decimated the turnout for today’s interim meeting, what should we think of him? When I first persuaded the Thames River Police to open the doors of their museum to…
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