Commercial Street
Commercial Street, central to Spitalfields and in the very area where the
Ripper murders were committed, is a major thoroughfare leading in north
from Whitechapel Hight Street up through Spitalfields to Shoreditch where
it joins Bethnal Green Road. Stemming off Commercial Street are two of the
streets in which murders attributed to Jack the Ripper took place: Hanbury
Street and Dorset Street.
Above: A view looking north along Commercial Street. It was taken from
the Flower and Dean Street exit. The white framework of the carpark
standing where Dorset Street once stood can be seen at the far end of
the picture. Taken: Thursday, May 13, 1999. Photograph courtesy of
Johnno.
Above: A view looking north along Commercial Street. It was taken from
Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate. It is a short three or four minute
walk north of here to Dorset Street and Hanbury Street further north.
Taken: Thursday, May 13, 1999. Photograph courtesy of Johnno.
Christ Church steeple from Commercial Street.
Seen here from the NW rising majestically above the nineteenth century
buildings on Commercial Street. The rightmost building (before the tree)
is the Ten Bells public house. Photograph courtesy of Viper.
