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Charles Valentine
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 3:41 pm: |       |
Please can anybody tell me anything about Brown's Stable Yard - the place where Polly was murdered in front of. Who was Mr Brown? Is he in the census? |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1269
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 11:31 am: | |
Hi Charles
Just seen your message and it fits in with something I came across recently. I'm afraid I cannot shed any light on Mr Brown but it looks as though the stable site was not only sold at the end of 1888 but comprehensively demolished.
In The Times of 29 December 1888, the following advert appeared:
Sound Building Materials - Buck's Row, Whitechapel
Messrs. Fuller, Horsey, Sons, and Cassell are instructed to sell by auction on Monday, January 7th, at 1 precisely, on the premises, Buck's row, Whitechapel (to clear the site, the freehold having been sold) the materials of Stables, Coach Houses and Sheds, comprising about 100 squares slates and tiles, 40 squares floor boards, 50 rods brickwork, turret clock and three faces, bell, and tower, stable fittings, 180 squares stone paving &c. May be viewed opn Friday and Saturday preceding the sale, and catalogues had on the premises; and of Messrs. Fuller, Horsey, Sons, and Cassell, 11 Billiter square, E.C.
If this is the stable in front of which Nichols was found (and I can find no mention of another on contemporary maps) it makes you wonder what sort of souvenir hunters attended the sale.
Chris
(Message edited by Chris on June 22, 2004) |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2609
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 3:48 am: | |
Found this for Apr 16th 1894 in the "Times" :
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Charles Valentine
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 10:31 pm: | |
Robert, you are absolutely amazing. Thanks so much for unearthing those gems for me. |
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