Jack The Ripper Tower of London Protest

Julian Cole - a film-maker who lives near the Cable Street site, said the Guardian’s investigation, casts doubt on (Palmer-Edgcumbe's) claim that he changed his mind halfway through the planning process. Cole added: This is further evidence that the planning application was a clear attempt to deceive the council and local residents as to the precise nature of the museum.

I don’t in principle object to a Jack the Ripper museum. Jack the Ripper is a big tourist attraction, as the walking tours demonstrate. Anything that draws tourists east of the Tower of London to where I live is not a bad thing at all. It’s good for local businesses and the local economy. But we’ve been deprived the opportunity to engage in any realistic consultation.

If someone is deliberately dishonest about what they propose to do with a building, the planning officers can’t give it a proper assessment.

The museum has also been forced to remove from its website the name of one of the charities to which it was purportedly going to donate some of its profits. Eaves, which works to combat violence against women, said it had not been approached by anyone from the venue.

Jack the Ripper Industry Distorts

Suffragettes campaigning in London during a by-election in 1910

Rosenberg is a member of History From Below, a global network of radical tour guides. He describes the East End as “the cradle of so many struggles for justice and better conditions for all workers that were then replicated elsewhere.

There is so much to celebrate in terms of achievement of the people in east London.”
It is a compassionate view of history shared by Alia in Mile End: “My thoughts are with the victims of the Ripper. They were women just like me, ready to do whatever was needed to ensure their kids were fed. Our lives matter, then and now.”

As for the identity of the murderer, Harney remarks: “Who was Jack the Ripper – who cares? It’s the victims who died that should be remembered.”