Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Markets & Historic sites

We took a walk on Sunday, October 7th, to Spitalfields, a market since 1638, now running mostly on Sundays. On the way to the market from the tube station, we passed this pub called The Ten Bells which is where prostitutes Annie Chapman and Mary Kelly drank on the nights they each became victims of Jack the Ripper in 1888.
This is a house on the way which is done up by American anglophile Dennis Severs, so as to look, sound, and smell as it would have centuries ago. It's set up to look like someone is presently living there in the 1700's. It was not open when we passed by so we didn't see inside.

1 comment:

The Grabers said...

I feel like I get a great history lesson every time I read your blog. Maybe I should have paid better attention in school.
Tonya