Ripper result....

....I was a little disappointed by the Jack the Ripper exhibition. I thought it was curated terribly and because he was never actually caught, there were only ever tenuous links to the Ripper himself. In fact, his name seemed to be included in texts at random opportunities to remind you that the show was even meant to be based around him at all! It was, however, an interesting insight in to London and particularly the East End in the late 19th Century. Possibly the most affecting part of the show was saved for the very end. Tiny, original photographic slides of each of the victims post mortem - one in particular was horrific, showing the brutal disemboweling and disfiguring that had given Jack The Ripper his very name.


Mary Jane Kelly